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Carrie Chen Temporal Portrait: Carrie 3D animation with audio 2022 Exhibition History: 1.Poetic Realities, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022. 2.UNPROTECTED, EPOCH Gallery, 2022. 3.NEXT-GEN LA: Digital Artists to Watch, VELLUM LA, 2023 Special thanks to Jennifer Steinkamp, Casey Reas, Peter Lunenfeld, Lauren McCarthy, Ingram Mao, Ivana Dama, Harvey Moon, Gareth Walsh. Video documentation: H. Leslie Foster II |
Link to Full Animation Created originally as a two-channel projection installation, Temporal Portrait: Carrie is simultaneously a group portrait and a self-portrait. Using GAN technology and referencing ancestral records, Chen simulates stages of aging and imagines the moment when transgenerational versions of her 3D selves gather in spacetime. Their collective presence is a meditation on nonlinear concepts of time and the artist's existence as a Chinese American woman. It is also a celebration of resiliency and life. Together, the 24 female figures occupy a long stretch of space. They breathe, blink, and hold their gaze with the viewer as a confrontational gesture responding to the marginalization of women and as a subversive stance on the male-dominated genre of group portraiture. |