In Ruby Chen's World, The Flesh Remembers What the Screen Forgets

In a world increasingly mediated by screens and simulations, Ruby Chen ‘s work feels startlingly alive. A multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture and painting, Chen explores the friction between instinct and the false promise of innovation. Her practice examines how primal desires persist within and against the systems that try to contain them, often using skin-like wax, tangled hair and pulsing sounds that echo the rhythm of the body.

In August, Chen presented her exhibition “As It Turns Quiet, We Rot” in Shanghai . Exhibited by LUmkA , the artist questioned the conventions of “newness manipulated for consumer exploitation” with works including The Existence Outside, I Can’t Save You and Cracked Skin . Now, Ruby Chen brings her work to London alongside Miles Schar