Current Exhibition
All Eyes On Me
Chen, Wei Yin
Duration
2025.5.24 - 2025.6.22
"If I don't belong to any shape, I can exist comfortably and freely."
She excels at using "fictional characters" as embodiments of the widespread anxiety and pressure in contemporary society. These characters are not specific individuals but represent the sense of imbalance people perceive under omnipresent scrutiny. The artist chooses "soft ceramic figures" as the material medium for these characters, their fragility and hollowness echoing the internal resistance to the mutual scrutiny of identities.
In this era of inescapable observation, by whose gaze are we truly shaped? And how can we find a space that is neither defined nor erased amidst countless stares?
"If I don't belong to any particular shape, I can exist comfortably and freely."
All Eyes On Me is not simply about depicting a specific character or a personal history; rather, it is an action of withdrawing, transforming, and re-enacting from the act of being watched. The artist chooses not to use herself as the narrative subject. Instead, through fictional characters, soft ceramic figures, and severed pupils, she constructs a detached perspective—one that is neither entirely "me" nor entirely "the other." This constantly shifting narrative strategy is both a resistance to labeling and social role projection, and a form of psychological self-preservation for the creator herself when facing classification and exclusion in reality.
"The struggle of powerless characters appears so feeble and ineffective in the eyes of others. Tragedy becomes comedy for the indifferent, yet it is strikingly ostentatious."
Weakness, here, is not a derogatory term. The seemingly powerless, distorted, or fragmented characters in the works are a gentle counterattack against contemporary values of "usefulness" and "dominance." In this context, crying is no longer a sign of weakness but a voice of resistance translated from primal instincts. Using ceramic figures as a medium, the artist seeks to recover the lost voices of the weak, exploring a latent language of resistance through them: not fierce, but struggling, enduring, gazing, and subverting identity.
The exhibition title, "All Eyes On Me" (《眼裡出逃》), reveals the core idea behind the creation: an escape from the gazes that force us into fixed definitions, and simultaneously a breakout from the indifference that segregates groups. It reinterprets the original positive and glorious meaning of "All Eyes On Me" to encapsulate the reality the artistic form intends to convey. Appearing in soft, transient, and uncertain postures, the artist redefines "weakness" as the origin of strength, and as the driving energy for counterbalancing unequal stances. This allows us to see previously misunderstood aspects of ourselves within these powerless and imbalanced images.
This exhibition invites viewers not merely to observe the artworks, but to co-exist and co-vocalize with these characters. Those pupils, no longer directly meeting our gaze, instead become a profound observation of the society we inhabit.
Installation view
Chen, Wei Yin
(b.1999, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
Education
2022- Tainan National University of the Arts, Graduate Institute of Applied Arts,Ceramics Department
2022 Graduated from National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Fine Arts, Painting Group, BFA
Experience
2024 Artist in residency at University of Arkansas Ceramics, Arkansas, U.S.
2023 International Studio Residency at Jingdezhen Ceramic University, China
Exhibition
2025 ART TAINAN Tainan Art Fair,Silks Place Tainan,Tainan, Taiwan
2025 ONE ART TAIPEI 2025, Hotel Metropolitan Premier Taipei,Taipei, Taiwan
2024 HAVING FUN IN THE WORLD,Ceramic Sculpture Joint Exhibition,YAMI ART SPACE,Taichung, Taiwan
2024 Dipped in Sugar,Wei Yin Chen Solo Exhibition,Ph Gallery,Arkansas, U.S.
2024 ONE ART TAIPEI,Hotel Metropolitan Premier Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2023 DACHI 66,The 26th Annual Exhibition of the Ceramics Group of TNNUA Graduate Institute of Applied
Arts,The Room,Taipei, Taiwan
2022 DACHI 66,The 25th Annual Exhibition of the Ceramics Group of TNNUA Graduate Institute of Applied
Arts,The Room,Taipei, Taiwan
2022 ART TAICHUNG Taichung Art Fair, The Lin Hotel,Taichung, Taiwan
2022 WHATZ International Contemporary Art Fair, Sheraoton Grand Taipei Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 The Young Voices,Recommendation Exhibition for Outstanding Graduates of the Department of Art
Taichung City Dadun Cultural Center,Taichung, Taiwan
2021 Qi Qiu She Zi ,Sculpture Group Exhibition,Dihua Halfday,Taipei, Taiwan
Awards
2023 FRANZ Rising Star Scholarship (FRSS）
2021 First Prize, Ink Painting and Eastern Gouache Category, 22nd Huang Xi Art Exhibition
2020 Merit Award, 24th Tao Cheng Art Exhibition, Sculpture Category