MAISON
80 x 60 cm, acrylic on paper, 2020
Daughter of an architect, a transmission that plays an important role in my artistic way… Maison is my life’s blueprints of wandering abroad. I search for myself by exploring experiences, and sometimes I find myself in lost childhood memories that transform into intertwined and fluctuating lines.
80 x 60 cm, acrylic on paper, 2020
Daughter of an architect, a transmission that plays an important role in my artistic way… Maison is my life’s blueprints of wandering abroad. I search for myself by exploring experiences, and sometimes I find myself in lost childhood memories that transform into intertwined and fluctuating lines.
Fondation La Ruche-Seydoux, Paris, France, 2023 / Fondation La Ruche-Seydoux, Paris, France, 2023 / V. Galleria, Taipei, Taiwan, 2023
Solo Exhibition "Maison" at Vibrantology Galleria, Taipei, Taiwan, 2026
Influenced by architectural thinking and spatial structural concepts, Chen Mei-Tsen has long viewed the city as a continuously evolving organism. She focuses on how its state changes under the interplay of time, natural growth, and human activity. Identifying herself as an “urban nomad”, she studies how places shape identity through repeated movement, stays, and returns. She also traces the spatial traces and psychogeography left by discrete experiences at the individual and collective levels. In this exhibition, titled "Maison", Chen further develops her long-standing research on “city-identity-movement” by rethinking “home”. Rather than viewing home as a fixed spatial unit, she sees it as a trajectory generated by the process of leaving and looking back. Through painting and spatial intervention, she transforms personal life experience into a continuously evolving perceptual map. In this way, “home” becomes a state in formation rather than a completed result.