Upa
Ke-Hsuan Chen



Loss Is Pink Blue and Green
Fantasy Geology
Silent Stripes
How To Write Dao
From Rage To Ecstasy
DieShui
Ripples
Long Story Short
Floating Over the City
Reverie and Leisure
Tilted

Residency

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Baer Art Center, Skagafjördur, Iceland (2025)
My practice engages with the interwoven and often contradictory relationships between landscape, nature, and the urban, approached through personal experience to explore dynamics of absence and presence.

Working through abstraction, I explore states of visibility and concealment across different spatial and contextual conditions. I approach residency as a form of embodied exploration. By placing myself in a quiet and unfamiliar environment, my body and perception are recalibrated, opening up a more subtle and shifting poetic experience that unfolds between individuals, and between humans and the natural world.






Open studio at Baer Art Center, July 2025
Playful research in the studio, overlapping coastline found trash






Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan (2024)


Fields researching work during the residency period, January 2024

Work in progress in the studio


Found marine rubbish from seashore at low tide