CHEN Yujun
喜宴 No.4 | Wedding Banquet No.4, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 300 cm
Chen Yujun’s work starts from the most private experience of the artist and expands into each individual’s story, examining a sense of a community and self as a whole. Growing...
Chen Yujun’s work starts from the most private experience of the artist and expands into each individual’s story, examining a sense of a community and self as a whole. Growing up at culturally diverse area at Putian, Fujian Province, China, he experienced different individuals constructing a community and different communities forming a country “wedding Banquet No. 4” paints the chaotic yet festive scene of a dinner feast which the artist himself attended. For the feast, families and friends across continent gathered together and enjoyed each other and food. He believes this very personal experience and scene portrays the complex society.