No one can escape from his background. All the past becomes my everlasting memories and my current life.
When began taking photograph, my intension was to seize the time, which never stops, and always makes everything forgotten.
I once met an old man in a Hutong in Beijing. He’s a photo enthusiast. While showing the photos he took in the Tiananmen movement 1989, he said, “though I can’t show these photos now, one day they will tell all the truth. “
I don’t know if this day will come, but I did take pictures for him with in house, which had been used for generations, and would be mandatorily removed by the government in a few days, in order to make a grassland for the Olympic.
Chinese aesthetics, tradition, politics and the heavy history that no one could avoid, they are my vision of visual arts.
Now I’m a master of fine arts student in Indiana University Bloomington. The western art education opens a door for me, to see a huge brand new world. No matter what we’re going to talk about, the past or today, the visual language is strongest. As a fine arts photographer, what I’m doing now is only taking pictures, but making the creative art works to express my interpretation based on all my knowledges and concerns by contemporary artistic means.
In my “Kinderscenen (the scenes of the childhood)” series, I put my current photo into my childhood photos, and suddenly I realize these old photos are totally renewed. It seems I could visit the sweet old time ever again, or I’m going out from those old days, from a city in south east China, to the whole world. The time went and never comes back, but the photos are the evidence and activator of its existence.
I am Yang Chen, a China-born photographer, living in United States, adopting both the Chinese tradition and the western education, and talking about the past, the current and myself.
No one can escape from his background. All the past becomes my everlasting memories and my current life.
When began taking photograph, my intension was to seize the time, which never stops, and always makes everything forgotten.
I once met an old man in a Hutong in Beijing. He’s a photo enthusiast. While showing the photos he took in the Tiananmen movement 1989, he said, “though I can’t show these photos now, one day they will tell all the truth. “
I don’t know if this day will come, but I did take pictures for him with in house, which had been used for generations, and would be mandatorily removed by the government in a few days, in order to make a grassland for the Olympic.
Chinese aesthetics, tradition, politics and the heavy history that no one could avoid, they are my vision of visual arts.
Now I’m a master of fine arts student in Indiana University Bloomington. The western art education opens a door for me, to see a huge brand new world. No matter what we’re going to talk about, the past or today, the visual language is strongest. As a fine arts photographer, what I’m doing now is only taking pictures, but making the creative art works to express my interpretation based on all my knowledges and concerns by contemporary artistic means.
In my “Kinderscenen (the scenes of the childhood)” series, I put my current photo into my childhood photos, and suddenly I realize these old photos are totally renewed. It seems I could visit the sweet old time ever again, or I’m going out from those old days, from a city in south east China, to the whole world. The time went and never comes back, but the photos are the evidence and activator of its existence.
I am Yang Chen, a China-born photographer, living in United States, adopting both the Chinese tradition and the western education, and talking about the past, the current and myself.