BOISBUCHET RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
LIANG-JUNG CHEN
SEASON 2021
Liang-Jung Chen is a Taiwanese artist and designer currently based in London. She is the founder of ii/initial initiatives, an interdisciplinary creative practice, which works across different mediums to explore and engage in projects of positive impact. Liang is also the winner of Dezeen’s Homeware design of the year 2021 for her project The Misused, a practice which transforms hardware objects into homeware. Working in the crossing point in between art and design, Liang’s works are often informed by her interests in everyday politics of artefacts, ranging from material culture in anthropological research and contemporary geopolitical studies. While her training in industrial design allows her to bridge sensitive narratives with rigorous material and detail-oriented awareness. She works with drawings, objects, sculptures, site-specific installations and narrative environments to explore the intangible tension and interplay between the organic and the manmade.
“Working in the crossing point in between art and design, Liang’s works are often informed by her interests in everyday politics of artefacts, ranging from material culture in anthropological research and contemporary geopolitical studies.”
In November 2020, Liang developed her series, The Egg Rack Made a Disclaimer in a hotel room in Taiwan. During her residency, Liang developed this series further by creating several site-specific installations in Boisbuchet of fantastical egg racks, each positioned in the most precarious spaces and situations possible, making it especially clear how sensitive the eggs are, whether balanced between the rammed-earth walls of Alvero Siza’s Tea Pavilion, or buoyed in one of the clay chambers of the Japanese Guest House, or even placed on a circular plate of ice in the lake, waiting to sink to the bottom as the ice melts. In her own words, Liang’s installations replicate the awkward moments in social events; they offer a glimpse into tragic scenarios; they solicit tenderness; they predict broken hearts.
More can be found on her website at www.liangjungchen.com
