Wanyi (Tina) Chen

Tina Chen’s artworks encompass iconic, figurative subjects reconceived as psychoanalytic archetypes. Her works evince a familiar muse, such as the Mother Goose as the 'Mother', in representations of surrealist phenomena, namely, the psyche of man.
The human unconscious is presented as subject to visual symbols and allegories of archetypes. Chen’s works encapsulate a worldly depiction of an ambiguous muse, where traditional oils and two-dimensional mediums retain the materiality of imageries. Classical aesthetics are reimagined by juxtaposing surrealist ideologies, synchronising with Freudian intimacies through the picturesque to manifest a psychological romance of traumas and ideals.