Kai-Ren CHEN
Taiwan
Born in Taoyuan in 1982
2012 Graduated from the Art Creation Section of the Institute of Art and Design, National Taipei University of Education
"We Are All Struggled in the Epidermis" uses the epidermis as the stage. The main subject in the picture is a cut, skinned piece of meat. As the saying goes, "People are cutters, I am fish." The characters living on the epidermis are all from Sampling from real life: from real life fragments, from inner feelings, from the translation of daily language, using paintings to create or reproduce language-like images, and to express social understanding and observation in a self-deprecating and humorous tone. The little people seem to be living freely on the epidermis, but in fact they are manipulated. Just like the hairs on the skin, they are controlled by the tissues, glands and other structures under the skin, but they are unable to detect how it operates. Just like the world we live in, we can vaguely feel that we are being constrained by some mysterious force in our ordinary days.