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CHEN
GAO





Art


  1. Room
  2. Corner
  3. Shell
  4. Rotating
  5. Mixture
  6. To be free
  7. Murmurs
  8. Brightness
  9. Reset
  10. Shadows
  11. Boundary
  12. Persona
  13. Entangled series
  14. Growth & Resides
  15. Floating
  16. “Ongoing” series
  17. 630 72 Greece
  18. Passing Through
    the Bubbles


Design


  1. graphic design
  2. sketch I
  3. sketch II
  4. sketch III
  5. sketch IV
  6. illustration


Film


  1. Polaroid
  2. 120mm
  3. 135mm 


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I had been trapped in a magnetic hole. The place is dark and empty but full of endless murmurs. Any movement I made caused roars. I tried to minimize my mobility to avoid Murmurs' attention, so I gradually integrated myself into this ghostly society with Murmurs. This invisible surrounding gave me faith. It was the Murmurs who gave me hope of life and destruction.

6. To be free

 


2021, collaborate with Rence Xu

I went back to China in the summer of 2021 and stayed for a while. Freeman decided to visit me before I left. The last time we met, it was a heavy snowy day with other friends at the airport in the States. This time, he took the train and finally arrived in my hometown, a seaside town located in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, China. My family has an old house. We set up our temporary studio there. He also lived there for these two weeks.




This day is the last day of his visit. After that, he'll return to his home, and I'll go back to the States to continue my studies in a few days. I don't know when we'll see each other next time. So we just want to use this short amount of time to play and be happy. 





During the day, we played around with our stuff in a repulse bay at the seaside from mid-afternoon to sunset. Things floating on the top of the water. We also moved alongside the tides until we got back to the beach after sunset. There is no plan, no expectation, and no rule. We take the time to play with it, to feel the energy of the waves. We wish I wish we could be free; at least now we are, everything, through time, space, and friendship.



Mark