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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  • Water

    Water

    Water has become a serious subject after Donald j. Trump made a comment about diving into water in around 2025. The information obtained by doctors and medical professionals have created a fear induced mentality about the governments, mental hospitals and professional helpers. Many people grow up on this type of racism serving it straight to… Read more

  • Flowers’ revenge – creative writing

    Flowers’ revenge – creative writing

    花朵的复仇 Flowers’ revenge Shelby was enlightened. She took her chance for revenge. She put three packets of salt into her dad’s morning coffee. Then she waited. He drank it at the breakfast table. Then he made a face. His handsome features all wrung up together. She asked delicately, “how is it? Your drink?” Her dad,… Read more

  • Meeting

    Meeting

    We met in conspicuous and mysterious circumstances, coronavirus and no less. The restrictive lockdown has shaped our encounters and later bonds and connections. It is beautiful as it should be. It is liberating. It is free. Etc.  Read more

  • Animals

    Animals

    Bao Xi gallery’s current exhibitions show a range of works depicting animals and nature through a distinct pov. It tells the public that people are crude dictators on environmental policies. Many of these works reframe the urban issues of pollution, vehicle and oil as nothing more than a collection of fictional stories. It has helped… Read more

  • Dreams – actresses

    Dreams – actresses

    I dreamed about actresses acting me trying to walk a bridge and steal stuff. They encourage me to do the exact same things as them. I was terrified even though she had makes up on looking almost exact as me. Etc.  Read more

  • Cloud

    Cloud

    A photograph called cloud on the first floor of ago is a winding road to self expression. The freedom of being is implied in this photograph using record covers as object of aesthetic interests. Many of these levels of photography is allocated in the museum. However the fact it faces its own visual mystery has… Read more

  • My World

    My World

    My secure little world is all of sudden turned upside down. Like a tumble weed. Since 2019 I have been mystified by the people in the urban spaces. Their sudden change of faces represent a deep and unrelenting political fever transpired in the coming age of AI. My constant search of a home has been… Read more

  • Los Angeles

    Los Angeles

    I came back from Los Angeles in June feeling depressed. Nothing could help me for two months. The south and the idea of it drag me down. I felt like I was drowning. What also didn’t help was the fact I was in Brooklyn. I fell even more into depression I couldn’t help feeling something… Read more

  • Hot Spider

    Hot Spider

    Hot spider by saimaiyu akesuk at 401 Richmond is a work about women. The orange shaded insect has made the subject alarming to the general public. It indicated a type of skin disease being spread far and wide. It also tells a story about group mentality that has dangerous side effect of infatuation. Etc.  Read more

  • Serena Joy

    Serena Joy

    NotesI searched Serena joy. It turned out it’s a book character that’s conservative. It made me realize how much people hate on women who are conservative. It seemed to decry a lack of sisterhood. The demands to be comrades in arms made this song a hypocritical declaration on the democratic reforms. Etc. Read more