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The relation between representation, distortion and transformation is one formulation of this intention. Yu-Chen Wang’s meticulous pencil drawings of apparently organic or biomorphic forms are also an investigation into the point at which a non-figurative line stops being a line and, with a little shading, starts to become a form which might represent something else. Wang’s drawings never impose a definite identity for these shapes; they operate between representational and decorative form, and while scattering clues about what they might be, they remain always in an in-between state, as lines gather and form into resolved objects, or disintegrate back in mere outline and sketch. |
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Text by JJ Charlesworth |
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Yu-Chen Wang (b.1978 Taiwan) lives and works in London
Wang studied at Goldsmiths College, London (2000-01) and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (MA Fine Art 2001-02). She has exhibited internationally, including tent., Podion Gallery, Amsterdam (2002), Tank.TV, ICA, London (2004), Caution, Uneven Surfaces, temporarycontemporary, London (2004), Synch Festival in Athens (2005) and Darklight Film Festival in Dublin (2006). She was short-listed for the Guardian/Observer Award (2002), the Pizza Express Prospects 2004 Drawing Prize (selected by Tim Marlow) and The Vauxhall Auteur Theory Film Competition 2005 (Curzon Soho, London 2005; ICA, London 2006; Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France 2006). Her works have been shown on BBC Big Screen, Manchester, curated by Cornerhouse (2006); Archipeinture: Moving in Architecture at Camden Arts Centre, London and Curzon Soho, London (2006); Satellite Works/Oeuvres Satellites, La Centrale, Montreal and Galerie L'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec City, Canada; New Life and the Dream Garden, Fieldgate Gallery, London (2007). |
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