Chen Wan-Jen
Animation, Artist
Hsinchu, Taiwan

Chen Wan-Jen born in Hsinchu County, in 1982, he specializes in using post-production animated images in his creative expressions, whereby many common everyday street settings captured in professional manner are collaged and edited with images downloaded from the internet.

Chen’s image theater gleans its subject matter from life. For him, the content of «real» everyday life is acted out through images. They do not make us conscious of the issue of whether the images are real or fake, but directly touch upon the discrepancy between implied reality and re-creation. He intentionally chooses ordinary scenes from life, attempting to piece together the fragments and to reinterpret the experiences we have lost.