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Chi-Wen Gallery at Frieze Art Fair London 2016｜Focus｜G25
Represented Artist｜Yin-Ju Chen

Yin-Ju Chen | Action at a Distance | Three-channel synchronized video installation, colour, b&w, stereo sound | 9min 16sec | 2015

Chi-Wen Gallery for Frieze Art Fair London 2016 will present three-channel video
installation “Action at a Distance” by Taiwanese artist Yin-Ju Chen.
Action at a Distance (2015) is the third chapter in Yin-Ju Chen’s recent practice ofaddressing the body, governments, and state violence. Like the previous chapters, As
Above, So Below (2013-2014) and Liquidation Maps (2014), Action at a Distance expands
and summarizes the metaphysical threads connecting invasive surgeries and instances ofstate violence.
In As Above, So Below and Liquidation Maps, Chen presents mysticism and astrology as
conduits for contemplating modern medical treatments and various massacres. Action at aDistance further elaborates the relationship between the macrocosm and the microcosm byexploring the philosophical consequences of quantum entanglement and the principle ofcorrespondence.
Einstein called quantum entanglement “spooky action at a distance”. Action at a Distanceand its previous iterations ultimately describe a cohesive and interwoven universe, wherescience and pseudoscience are merely two complementary routes to understanding humanlife.

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About Artist
Yin-Ju Chen (b.1977) studied video and performance art at the San Francisco Art Institutein the New Genres Department, currently lives and works in Taipei. She was a resident
artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She
has participated in many important international exhibitions and film festivals, such as
Liverpool Biennial (UK, 2016), “The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed”,
20th Biennial of Sydney (AU, 2016), “Traversing the Phantasm”, Forum Expanded at 66th
Berlin Film Festival (Germany, 2016), "Social Factory”, Shanghai Biennial (CN, 2014), “A
Journal of the Plague Year”, (Para/Site, HK, 2013), "Modern Monsters Death and Life ofFiction”, Taipei Biennial (2012), International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL, 2011), EMAF European Media Art Festival (Germany, 2011), “Multitud Singular”, Museo Nacional Centrode Arte Reina Sofia (Spain, 2009), International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam(NL, 2008), and San Francisco International Film Festival (USA, 2006).

About Chi-Wen Gallery
Founded in 2004 by Chi-Wen Huang, Chi-Wen Gallery is one of Taiwan's leading galleries,
showing the best of contemporary Taiwanese art with a focus on video and photography.
The gallery is dedicated to supporting emerging artists with curatorial projects that explore
the most cutting-edge subjects and has been actively participating in local and internationalart fairs. As such Chi-Wen Gallery is very much connected with today's art and represents
artists whose work continues to grow in historical importance.
Over the last decade Chi-Wen Gallery has fostered the careers of a diverse group ofinternationally renowned artists, both emerging and established, whose practices
transformed the way art is made and presented in Taiwan today. These artists include
Chen Chieh-Jen, Chien-Chi Chang, Chen Shun-Chu, Hung Tung-Lu, Jawshing Arthur Liou,Peng Hung-Chih, Tusi Kuang-Yu, Wu Tien-Chang, Yao Jui-Chung, Yuan Goang-Ming,
Yin-Ju Chen & James T. Hong, Yu Cheng-Ta and among others.

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Yin-Ju ChenBiography
Born 1977, Taiwan. Lives and works in Taipei
Studied at the Taipei National University of the Arts (1996-2000) and San Francisco ArtInstitute (2001-2003)
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2016
Extrastellar Evaluations II – A Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Centrefor Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester
Yin-Ju Chen: Extrastellar Evaluations, Kadist San Francisco
As Above, So Below: Works by Yin-Ju Chen, SF Cinemtheque and Yerba Buena Centre forthe Arts, San Francisco
2015
Action at a Distance, IT PARK, Taipei
Behold The Asian : How One Becomes What One Is, James T. Hong and Yin-Ju Chen,Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei
The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within (with James T. Hong), TheCube
Project Space, Taipei
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
No Such Thing As Gravity, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool
Research, RE: researched, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul
Liverpool Biennial 2016
Not Early Not Late, PACE Gallery, Beijing
Extrastellar Evaluations: A Dialogue Between Yin-Ju Chen, Tsui Kuang-Yu, and Chen
Chieh-Jen, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei
20th Biennale of Sydney
Soft Crash, GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo
Stars and Monsters, Neptune, Hong KongBerlinale 2016 - Forum Expanded: Traversing the Phantasm, Berlin
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2015
Corruption: Everybody Knows..., e-flux, New YorkInterrupted Survey (Fractured Modern Mythologies), Asia Culture Center (ACC), Gwangju
Language is a Virus, Ilam Campus Gallery, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
2014
Social Factory, Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art
Spectres of the Past, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei
The Return of Ghosts – 2014 Taiwan International Video Art, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei
The 2nd CAFAM Biennale - The Invisible Hand: Curating as Gesture, Central Academy ofFine Arts Museum, Beijing
2013
Utopien vermeiden, Werkleitz Anniversary Festival, Halle
A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story,
Para Site, Hong Kong and touring to TheCube Project Space, Taiwan, Arko Museum,Seoul (both 2014) and Kadist San Francisco (2015)
2012
Taipei Biennial 2012 - Death and Life of Fiction, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
In the Wintry Thicket of Metropolitan Civilization, Ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano
Residencies
Kadist Art Foundation Artist in Residence, San Francisco (2016)
Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney (2013)
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (2010-11)

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