Formulated as a twin-panel multi-piece installation on heavy premium paper, the artwork masterfully relies on raw studio assembly and digital manipulation to examine the body as a site where unseen internal tensions break open into alternate anatomies. The visual layout flows dynamically across two distinct abstract environments to map out an emotional narrative of constant mutation: the first panel captures white structural facial models cracked by raw earth layers, while the second panel structures a vertical silhouette bursting into dark organic fissures and geometric seams that expand in absolute freedom.
The Anatomy of Rupture examines the body as a site where internal pressures—emotional, psychological, and mnemonic—break open into visible form. Through sculptural silhouettes fractured by mineral textures, floral intrusions, and geometric fissures, the series studies rupture not as destruction but as a structural revelation. Each image isolates a moment when the body can no longer contain its unseen tensions: cracks become channels of light, fragments turn into alternate anatomies, and the borders between organic and inorganic dissolve. These ruptures map the instability of selfhood, suggesting that identity is built not from coherence but from the shifting seams of what breaks, heals, and transforms. Figurative photography
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Surreal Figurative Photography - Rupture III and II, Diptych 2025. By Ying Chen
Rupture III and II, 2025
From The Anatomy of Rupture series
Archival Pigment prints
Limited Edition.
Overall size: 56 x 84 in. Edition of 10 + 1AP
Individual size: 56 x 42 in. Edition of 10 + 1AP
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.

















