YI-CHIAO CHEN
ARTIST
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In my artistic practice, I explore the interwoven forces of motherhood, nature, emotion, and abstraction. I believe art has the power to capture the invisible yet omnipresent energies—the rhythms of nature, the resonance of emotion, the memory of the body. Through colors, flowing lines, and layered textures, I translate these unseen forces into a visual language that transforms canvas and space into sites of reflection and spirituality.
My work spans painting, photography, installation, video, and digital media, continuously seeking new forms that bridge inner experience and the external world. Together, these explorations converge into a larger vision: the “Cosmic Mother.”
The Cosmic Mother is not a singular figure, but a field of energy. It connects the flourishing of nature, the power of femininity, the symbols of culture, and the pulse of the cosmos. Each of my series—Mother Flora’s union of plants and motherhood, Curve Line Conversion’s resonance of curves and metallic powders, and Blue-Gold Chaos’s cycles of rebirth—represents a facet of this maternal cosmos, woven into what I call a “cosmic history of motherhood.”
Within this constellation, the 21st-Century Madonna & Child series holds a special significance. I aim to create Madonna and Child in an Asian style, reimagining the gaze and background to examine the mother–child relationship. Through the concepts of “transformation” and “hybridization,” I explore race, gender, and cultural identity, reflecting the layered complexity of the image in the 21st-century world. In doing so, I not only revisit motherhood as an archetype but also confront the complexities of contemporary womanhood, searching for strength and identity within the tensions of cross-cultural dialogue.
In parallel, the Emotion Series raises a central question: can art enable audiences to achieve an emotional or spiritual connection? As a mother, through the experiences of pregnancy and raising two children, I became profoundly aware of the fragility and preciousness of life. By portraying the mother–child relationship, I transform this intimate experience into an artistic language, inviting viewers to enter a space of resonance and spiritual reflection.
In these works, curves embody the flow of energy, gold evokes the sacred and the hopeful, and flowers and maternal forms stand as enduring symbols of regeneration.
My art is an ongoing invocation: within motherhood, we are bound to nature, in communion with culture, and vibrating in harmony with the universe.
My works also reflect my life—intertwining personal history, perspective flow, and the circulation of energy. The circle, as a recurring motif, embodies balance, generation, and the interconnected influence people exert on one another. Everything originates from the past, while the future unfolds within the present
在我的藝術實踐中，我持續探索 母性、自然、情感與抽象 的交織。我相信藝術能捕捉那些不可見卻無所不在的能量：自然的律動、情感的共鳴、身體的記憶。透過色彩、曲線與層疊的質感，我將這些能量轉化為一種視覺語言，使畫布與空間成為靈性與反思的場域。
我的創作橫跨繪畫、攝影、裝置、錄像與數位媒體，不斷尋找能夠連結內在經驗與外部世界的新形式。這些探索最終共同匯聚成一個更宏大的願景：「宇宙母體」。
「宇宙母體」並非單一形象，而是一個能量場域。它將自然的繁盛、女性的力量、文化的符號與宇宙的脈動緊密相連。不同系列作品——〈花神母親〉展現植物與母性的融合、〈曲線能量轉換〉探索線條與金屬粉塵的共振、〈藍金混沌〉象徵生命的重生循環——都是這個母體的不同面向，交織成我所謂的「母性宇宙史」。
其中，〈二十一世紀聖母與聖嬰〉系列尤具關鍵意義。我嘗試以亞洲風格重塑聖母與聖嬰的形象，透過凝視與背景的再詮釋來探討母子關係。藉由「轉化」與「混融」的概念，我進一步思索種族、性別與文化身份的多重層次，反映當代世界影像的複雜性。這些作品不僅重新檢視母性作為永恆的原型，也直面當代女性身份的張力，並在跨文化的交會中尋找力量與定位。與此同時，〈情感系列〉提出一個核心問題：藝術是否能引領觀者達到情感或精神上的連結？ 作為一位母親，透過懷孕與養育兩個孩子的經歷，我深切體會到生命的脆弱與珍貴。藉由描繪母子關係，我將這段親密的經驗轉化為藝術語言，邀請觀者進入一個共鳴與靈性反思的空間。
在這些作品中，曲線象徵能量的流動，金色喚起神聖與希望，花朵與母體則成為不斷重生的符號。
我的藝術是一場持續的召喚：在母性之中，我們與自然相連，與文化共生，並與宇宙同頻。
同時，我的作品也映照著我的生命——交織著個人歷史、視角的流動與能量的循環。其中「圓」的意象象徵平衡、生成，以及人與人之間的相互影響。萬物源於過去，而未來則在當下不斷展現。
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