Chen-Yu Wang
Taiwan/ Netherlands
"At the end of 2024 I was practicing sound healing in India and it inspired me to interweave sound together with textiles. How? During my two months residency with AiR Green I want to take a break from my critical and political approach and return to the joy of working poetically with textiles, photography, the body, sound and painting. I am looking forward to staying in the natural environment in Norway, in an atmosphere that purely allows artists to concentrate on textiles, and have a chance to interact with other textile artists and curators. At the end of the residency, I am hoping to build a soft space participants can immerse in."
Chen-Yu Wang, March 2025
Artist´s Statement
Designer, artist, researcher, maker and factory girl, Chen-Yu Wang graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2022. In these different roles, Wang translates Eastern and Western ways of thinking, written information in Mandarin and English, the implicit between material and immaterial and the dialogue between us and the other. Wang wants to break through the silence of the important but invisible voices of capitalism. Core themes are decolonization, decentralization of euro-centrism, hybridization and anti-racism. Wang is looking for ways to integrate sociology and anthropology into her artistic practice. She expresses her reflections on these themes through the medium of textiles, sculptures, drawings, performances, installations and spaces. The act of making becomes a therapeutic tool for revisiting imprinted discomfort and to create a new reality for herself and the audience.
Biography
Chen-Yu Wang is a Taiwanese artist, researcher and factory girl currently based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. She holds a MA in Social Design from Design Academy Eindhoven and BA in Fashion Textiles from Ravensbourne University London. Her work has been included in a group exhibition at W139, GLUE Amsterdam, National Taiwan Crafts Research and Development Center, Dutch Design Week, London Design Festival, and Venice Design Biennale. She has been in the artist-in-residency at Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium; Salwa Foundation, The Netherlands; Icelandic Textile Center and more. She has given lectures at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague and Medialab Matadero, Madrid. In 2023, her artistic practice was awarded the Talent Development Grant by Stimuleringsfonds, The Netherlands.
