Qiaosi (Josh) Chen (b. 1999, Fuzhou, China) is a New York-based artist working across video, installation, photography, and performance. Using objects, images, and the body, he constructs a fragmented, non-linear visual language shaped by memory, metaphor, and sensation. His works unfold as quiet inquiries, revealing brief clarity within ambiguity—like signals emerging through static. With a background in engineering and design, Chen moves between science and mysticism, logic and emotion, control and chance. His practice is intuitive and open-ended, grounded in peripheral experiences that resist naming yet slowly take form through material and experience.
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When You Look At Me
Mixed Metrials, 2025
30 x 40 inches
Mixed Materils on Canvas
Exhibited at A Space Gallery
June 15 - June 29, 2025
This work explores the fluid dynamics between the self and its surroundings—other individuals, environments, and inner consciousness. By collaging fragments of personal memories and deliberately blurring the figure of the self, I question what emerges when one relinquishes dominance within a given context.
The surface is marked with erosion-like textures, suggesting a presence that never fully settles—never pristine, never whole. These worn traces reflect how identity shifts across different spaces, and how memories, like fragile surfaces, distort with each act of recollection.
The visual structure evokes the sensation of peering through a window, inviting viewers to observe without full access—mirroring the instability of perception. In this way, "me" becomes interchangeable: it could be anyone, anything—a dissolving subject between light and surface.