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Huijun Chen

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
Huijun Chen huijunchen1994.wixsite.com/carooolgg4 951142024@qq.com https://www.instagram.com/Carooolgg4/
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2021
#Drawing
#MA Contemporary Arts China
#MA Courses

For the Chinese, going home is an eternal topic. Especially against the backdrop of the global pandemic, hardened borders, quarantine policies and expensive international airfares in recent years, it has become particularly difficult for overseas Chinese to return to their homeland.

The Home Sweet App is a platform that imitates the features and functions of social media such as WeChat, allowing participants to express their longings for home. Audience can access by scanning the QR code on their mobiles and listen to the stories through an immersive experience.

The participants are Chinese currently living in the UK, USA, Australia, Germany, Japan etc. They come from different places in China, aged between 20 and 60, some are students and about to graduate, several have been working overseas for a few years while others have emigrated for more than 10 years. The materials collected from them are transformed by the artistic practice into ink paintings, audio, texts and names that compose a digital space where the real and the fictional are intertwined.

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The annual Degree Show is a highly anticipated event amongst staff, students, external partners and friends of the School of Art – it provides a platform for the work that the students have spent so long conceiving and producing. The 2023 Degree Show has been realised through an ongoing testing of ideas in public arenas in which the discourse around art practice takes place. This process of realising practice which engages with audiences has over […]

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Kirsty Mills
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#Storyteller
A colour photograph showing A hand is holding a glass sphere. Inside the sphere a house is reflected. It is upside down.
Meng Li
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#MA Art and Design Interdisciplinary Practices #MA Courses
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#MA Art and Design Interdisciplinary Practices #MA Courses
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#Drawing #Photography
wall mounted abstract prints