JAO YU CHEN

Education


2014-2018
Royal Academy of Art The Hague,Textile Design Bachelor

2009-2013
National Chung Kung University,Economics Bachelor


Working Experience


10/21-03/24
Material designer, One Dust Studio

10/19-01/21
Freelance weaving designer for Jongeriuslab,Exhibition Woven Cosmos, Gropius Bau

06/19
Weaving collaborator for Bless,Exhibition at Lafayette Anticipation

07/17- 09/17
Internship, Bless Berlin

11/16- 04/17
Part-time assistant, Eugène van Veldhoven Textile Design


Exhibitions


2023 EEL Festival,Taipei,Taiwan

2021 Matter Matters as a Matter of Fact, Soulangh Creative Park,Tainan, Taiwan

2019 The Forth Generation, EMU digital gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2018 Graduation Festival,Royal Academy of arts the Hague, Netherlands

2018 Exposed,de Electriciteitsfabriek, Netherlands

2017 Exposed,de Electriciteitsfabriek, Netherlands

2016 Exposed,de Electriciteitsfabriek, Netherlands

2015 Exposed,de Electriciteitsfabriek, Netherlands


Arstist Residency


2021 Artist in Residence at Soulangh Cultural Park,Tainan

2022 Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center Artist in Residence, Waitlisted#1


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Knitting research focus on the translation of text into imagse and structures. 
This manipulation of digitized mementos is one of the two main threads of this show: materiality translation. More specifically, the two ask: what happens when we transform flat calligraphy into texture and tactility? In this day and age where we are obsessed with digitization of visual forms, what gets translated and what gets left behind? Is there a softer alternative?

The second driving force behind the works is Jao and Sung’s persistent push for experimental merge of their own respective medium: textile and ceramics. 

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  Kntting research-on going
Collaboration with 
8bit Textile Design and Tif SungEEL Festival

Eel Festival installation emerges as a fusion of YuChen's textile artistry and Tweemolar's floral expertise, embodying a collaborative dialogue between materials. Beyond mere collection, our practice delves into a profound interaction with these materials, shaping the ultimate form of the installation.

Viewers may perceive the installation as a piece of gym equipment, a vehicle, a furniture, or even a testament to evolution. Through it, we project our visions of a post-human world, echoing diverse imaginings and embodiments of the body.

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Collaboration with         Tweemolar




Matter Matters as a Matter of Fact 

Materiality is the starting point of our research. From nearby factories and local craftsmen, we collected leftover materials and unsold inventory, ranging from webbing straps, marble scraps, to even paper flyers from Siao-Long Cultural Park. These industries we have visited, although seemingly unrelated, weave an unseen network, supporting the region’s cultural and economic makeup.

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Artist Residency
 Wild Things Artist Duo

Mice on Mars
The installation is a crash site on Mars. Crashing a car means the destruction of a value. The value of constantly seeking for progress, an act of seeking to prove that humans are powerful enough to alter other planets. Once a vehicle has crashed,the added value must be to distract from the machine itself, it becomes merely a piece of metal. Through the use of miniature and imitate, I constructed a landscape free from the restriction ofgeological space. A new world that lies in my imagination of the distant future.

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Cybernetic cave painting

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Read more  Textile InstallationMade in Chinatown

The Hague Chinatown, an amusement park for Pan-Asian culture, a world of its own. A farrago of cultural representations; constantly changing to satisfy the curiosity of the tourists. The objects question the notion of authenticity and they are the manifestations of the continuous evolution of one’s identity. 


Read more  ObjectWoven windows

I mainly work on the TC2, a semi-automatic jacquard weaving loom. By manpulating the weaving patterns, I am able to split the warp into mutiple layers to acheive the desired effect, such as transparency and pockets...etc. This reflects my long term research into the technique of weaving.  Freelance work 
Jongerius lab