Chen Chieh-Jen｜Biennale of Sydney｜White Bay Power Station, Sydney

Artist Chen Chieh-Jen has been selected for the 2026 Biennale of Sydney. He will present five video works from March 14 to June 14. The theme of this year's biennale, "Rememory," is inspired by the work of American novelist Toni Morrison, focusing on the delicate threshold between memory and forgetting while delving into the fragmented and discarded remnants of history. Echoing this theme, Chen employs methods of revisiting and reconstruction to manifest marginal histories that were once erased or suppressed. His video works profoundly explore the dynamics of control and care between human society and artificial intelligence. By focusing on the homeless, migrant workers, the gig economy, and the darker side of AI, he presents a compelling discourse on the interpretation of our history, the present, and the future.

Chen Chieh-Jen was born in 1960 in Taoyuan, Taiwan, Chen Chieh-Jen currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. Chen's works are confronted with the rapid technological development and refer to every present situation in which people perceive the world. Chen frequently receives overseas invitation, and his works were collected by several significant art museums, such as Vienna Secession, Austria. Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris; M+, Hong Kong; Mori ArtMuseum, Tokyo, etc. He had also been invited to participate in dozens of contemporary art biennials and more than a hundred exhibitions in Venice, Sao Paulo, Lyon, Liverpool, Gothenburg, Istanbul, Moscow, Sydney, Taipei, Shanghai and so on.

More information
https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/chen-chieh-jen-2/