Yuling Chen is a Chinese Canadian new media artist. She is specialized in making works about beauty, labour and racial tensions using media archives exploring histories of new media art. She was born in 1990 on the southern small island of China, Hainan Island, in the city of Danzhou. When she was young she led a nomadic life moving from cities to cities, homes to homes and places to places. Thus, she had discovered her love in literature, obsession with identity, and eyes for design.


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The swallowed whole exhibition at the harbourfront centre is a telltale sign of age. It is about China’s rise as the super power deserving the attention of the world. It talks about how human figures can be represented by rocks and formations layers to communicate the tension of this rise internally and externally. Many people see it as a representation of faces. China has made its image a long awaited emotional showdown between the historic pains and progressive futures. Who can blame them for this temperate display of powers?  

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