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Drawing and Painting

Jenny Tchen

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Painting
2022
Oil on Canvas
36 x 48 inches
2200 (CAD) For Sale
Enshrined

“Based on ruminations of internal conflict from a struggle to authentically connect to the displaced cultural and religious values that anchor my family to its notions of home, I physically negotiate the disparities that don't seem to allow me to internalize them fully. Visualizing the boundary between present and past through my discomfort and shame, I contemplate the weight of prayer, and the stitching that strings me to my family, and to my personal history overseas.”

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Jenny Tchen

Drawing and painting

“By re-interpreting and abstracting experiences from within the Western hegemonic framework I was raised in, the conflict I feel internally becomes tangible and identifiable. Cultivating methods to...” [More]