Qinyue Chen Turns Domestic Silence Into Drama

Across photography and painting, the London-based artist Qinyue Chen uses domestic space, staged imagery and damaged surfaces to question how memory is built—and what it leaves unresolved In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard writes that ‘the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace’. Qinyue Chen, who also operates as Shuyang, isn’t so convinced about the safety of the home. The domestic setting in her work is rarely inviting. It is an archive […]