Jeremy Chen is a Hawaiian born (1997), London based artist from Hong Kong. He has attended the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and completed his BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths (2020). In addition to film scoring, songwriting and record producing, he has founded an internationally based collective combining game design, moving image, and popular music.
Jeremy Chen
His practice is primarily rooted in sound, image, and performance based work with a focus that derives from traditionally Buddhist modes of thinking. There is an interest in exploring notions of the ‘self’ through virtual landscapes as distance, ego, and persona is played upon. The material of the work is often grounded in recorded music traditions and dissociative states as he has sought to exploit his past pop star and corporate sociopath training. The work in this exhibition features a series of films and sculptural installations that make use of traditional cinematic elements in combination with 3D scanning, facial rigging, and animation. The installation I’m so meta, hahaha: explorations in Jeremy places a methodology of living as practice alongside a crippling inability to finish work. The piece is an examination of the general sensation of overwhelming strangeness in being somewhat human.
This installation features a series of sculptures as well as a series of short films exploring the relationship between man, meaning, and Jeremy.
The two films on display include "I'm so meta, hahaha: Chest Pains (Explorations in Jeremy)", as well as "I'm so meta, hahaha: Don't mind me (Explorations in Jeremy)".
Medium:
Installation and Video
Excerpt of animation
An animation comprised of 3d scanning, motion capture, and facial rigging technologies.