Part of Ying Chen’s critically acclaimed Her series, this unique physical creation treats a dual-panel format as an analytical laboratory, gathering vintage black-and-white female portraits to strip them from their original contexts. The structural layout tracks an intense graphic rhythm: the left frame fuses a delicate profile with volumetric pink oyster mushroom layers and coral drapes, while the right panel stages a complex vertical composition featuring sharp black-and-white geometric stripes and deep violet crystal shards covering the subject's gaze. By balancing severe physical fragmentation with natural biomorphic shapes, this calculated visual system maps a unique female image in each frame, successfully communicating a gentle but unyielding presence filled with independent life.
This is a photo contemporary collage project based on modern art. Greatly influenced by natural figures and artificial textures. I love to collect black and white photos of female portraits, cutting out the parts and stripping them from the original context, combining them with the abstract design figure, to get a new figurative photography. This project is about 'she', every single piece has a unique female image, and each composition has a different character. Mysterious women are always a very attractive point to me. Ideally, behind every independent female figure, I want the audience to see a gentle but strong female image. Its basic sense is to make her seem to have life, when she smiles or looks up, every move is gentle and beautiful.
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Conceptual Collage Photography - Her-Untitled 5 & 3 Diptych, 2018. By Ying Chen
Her-Untitled 5 & 3 Diptych, 2018
From the Her series
Archival Pigment prints
Limited Edition.
Unframed
Ying Chen was born in Tokyo, Japan, to Chinese parents living in Japan. She grew up and spent her early childhood in Japan until the age of seven, then spent her youth in China. Now Chen has graduated from SCAD with her bachelor's degree and is currently enrolled in the SCAD graduate photo department.


