Claudine Chen

Claudine is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video, and drawing. She explores themes of cycles within life, solidity and shadow, and the dynamics of relationships and connection.

Grounded in an ecological ethos, Claudine experiments with a range of materials considered to be waste: food packaging, shredded paper, wood ash, dried plants, and hair. She transforms these materials through processes involving heat, water, and time, allowing elements of chance and unpredictability to shape the outcome. With these materials, she suggests that what is discarded or overlooked nonetheless has worth. Her background as a scientist informs her aesthetic language, such that the resulting forms contain echoes of geometries found in mathematics and nature.

This project, 'Reciprocal Space', consists of a three-dimensional, large-scale sculpture made from plant-milk cartons. The forms reference bodies, but in an alternate reality of smooth mathematical surfaces. The two forms interact, but in unknown abstract ways.