Chumik 袁家珣
Chia Hsun Yuan (Chumik) is an artist based in Taipei, her paintings and video works muse on the idea of presence as manifestations of inner reality, serving a space for dialogue between the internal and external realms of existence.
Her artistic practice is shaped by the transient nature of settling in various places abroad and observing cultural milieus of her surrounding. Often weaving together multiple spaces in her work, she seeks to explore the connections between landscape and the complexities of personal and universal quest for belonging, our sense of memory and loss, longing and uncertainty. Her works have been included in public and private collections around the world.
Chumik is also an educator and lecturer on the subject of Indian painting and have been working with institutions including National Changhua University of Education, Lin Chihchu Memorial, and National Taipei Fine Art University.
My Work
2000, Shanghai.
I was lingering before a curious stone arch. On the other side, a narrow, dark alley with old bicycles parked against the wall; further down, rows of hanging fabrics performed a dance of color in the afternoon sun. Like Dorothy walking into the Land of Oz, I entered the longtang to find life bustling in a world unknown to me.
Awestruck, I took my first black-and-white photograph, knowing little what “Art” is, or how it can tell most eloquently an account of history through the details of the most ordinary lives.
It took me years to realize that it is through art I continue to embrace the fullness of life in the shifting landscapes of my journey. My works are driven by a pure sense of curiosity, a desire to understand the relationships that shape our world, our identity, longings and sense of belonging.
In painting I enjoy the potential to manifest worlds from impressions incised in my mind; through layers of mineral pigments, I explore spaces between the fantastical and the rational, yet never fully reach either destinations.
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