YU-CHEN WANG

You Have Forgotten Me 50x50cm Coulour pencil on paper 2006

Wang's drawings are like the murmurings of lovers. All the spoken words, muttering sounds, transform slowly into organic and fluctuating movement. Gradually they flow with almost unnoticeable speed and fall upon the pale white paper. The hybrid forms articulate tales of eternal and uncanny transformation, existing somewhere between human and animal, they are multi-cellular organisms and the blossoms of illusory plants. These translucent beings are in a state of flux, expanding on the extremely flat surface of dislocation. At first glance, we see the multiform of fluidity, plurality and ambiguity as one or a mixture of many. While on closer examination, they may become the disorderly multiplied and fragmented masses. There is some kind of free magnetic tension in between the components. Sometimes they are strongly attracted to each other and sometimes suspended.

EDUCATION   2001-02   MA in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London 2000-01   Postgraduate Study in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London 1998-00   BA in Commercial Design, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan 1993-98   Diploma in Commercial Design, National Taichung Institute of Technology, Taiwan SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2007 Satellite Works/Oeuvres Satellites, La Centrale, Montreal; Galerie L'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec City, Canada 2006          Recommendation of the fortnight: Animation & Drawing Programme, Cornerhouse, Manchester Recommendation of the fortnight: Animation & Drawing Programme the Bigger Picture/BBC Big Screen Network, Exchange Square, Manchester Moving in Architecture, Curzon Soho, London Archipeinture: Artists’ Films: Moving in Architecture, Camden Arts Centre, London Conjunction 06, AirSpace, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Darklight Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland the Bigger Picture, BBC Big Screen Network, Exchange Square, curated by Cornerhouse, Manchester Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece Videonale, Kino Union, Berlin Saison Vidéo, Espace Croisé, Roubaix, France ArtBreak, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia Another Product, Cornerhouse, Manchester Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Short Film Market - British Council Stand, Clermont-Ferrand, France Sequence, The Space, London Halloween Short Film Festival, ICA, London 2005          Sequence, de Roode Bioscoop, Amsterdam Media Art Festival Friesland, Hoofdlocatie, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands the Big M ‘Crossing Borders’, the Blue Carpet, Newcastle Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, the Big M, Berwick-upon-Tweed Bow Festival, SPACE, London The Vauxhall Auteur Theory, Curzon Soho, London Synch Festival, Electronic Music and Digital Arts, Lavrio Technological and Science Park, Athens, Greece Take 291, 291 Gallery, London FleaMarket II, temporarycontemporary, London Open Screening, Whitechapel Art Gallery. London Island Art Film & Video Festival, Prenelle Gallery, London 2004           Caution : Uneven Surfaces, temporarycontemporary, London YESVEMBER, The House Gallery, Camberwell, London Tank.TV, ICA, London Tank.TV, www.tank.tv PizzaExpress Prospects 2004, Tea Building, London 2003         Randomize Film and Video Festival, Beijing, China The Random-ize Taipei Video Art Show, Taipei, Taiwan 2002           tent. Podion Gallery, Amsterdam 4x4, 291 Gallery, London Randomize Film and Video Festival, Sovi Art Centre, London           AWARDS 2005 Selected for The Best of 2005, Media Art Festival Friesland, the Netherlands the Grants to Artists, the British Council, UK Shortlisted for The Vauxhall Auteur Theory Film Competition, London 2004         Finalist for PizzaExpress Prospects2004 Drawing Prize, London (selected by Tim Marlow) 2002         Shortlisted for young graduate of the Guardian / Observer Award, UK www.yuchenwang.com