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.


Temples, Divinations

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I went to the temple in Scarborough between 2021 and 2023 when I was living there. I got a divinations text saying I don’t know myself and have no luck with happiness and being promoted, successful and rich. I was disappointed. I laughed it off bitterly. And I left. It’s true I couldn’t find a job at the time. But I still found those texts really personal. Later I played with the divination online. I found it interesting that one can ask questions several time in a row and get different results. It was then I felt liberated. All texts are good in a way. It informs you about the nature of questions themselves. Etc. 

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