Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Jiaxin Chen has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Jiaxin is an award-winning photographer and mixed media artist based in London, UK and China. She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 31st Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her work to be showcased in this feature.
Her Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Jiaxin’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of her mixed media collages submitted to this competition.
Jiaxin Chen is a visual artist working with photography, mixed media, and material experimentation. Her practice transforms images into tactile forms that embody memory, fragility and rhythm. In her recent series The City’s Breathe: Folded Lights of Hong Kong, she interlaces cyanotype prints with the traditional craft of Yongchun paper weaving, fusing digital pixels with woven grids to reveal the layered pulse of urban life. Chen’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions internationally, engaging audiences in dialogues that connect ancient craft with contemporary media. She currently lives and works between the United Kingdom and China.
My practice investigates the tension between photography and material, image and object. I am interested in the fragility of photographs, how they can be folded, interwoven or fractured, yet still preserve light and memory within their surfaces. By combining cyanotype printing with Yongchun paper weaving, I reconfigure photographic fragments into grid-like structures where order collides with disruption and clarity dissolves into blur. This process reflects the unstable rhythms of the city, structured yet fragile, immediate yet historical. I aim to reimagine urban space not as fixed representation but as a living organism, breathing with memory, contradiction and transformation. Through repetition, distortion and rhythm, my work challenges photography’s boundaries and invites viewers to encounter the image as something material, unstable and alive.
To learn more about Jiaxin and to see more of her mixed media collages, please visit her Instagram.
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