Chen Zhen (1955-2000)

‘It is interesting to withdraw from one’s own usual context and meet a new world, especially today, when cultural and ideological Hybridisation has become an irreversible fact. The problem is not just that of understanding the work of art superficially, but also to try to effectively understand it with maximum clues. A quote from Chinese army strategy techniques and symptomatic of my attitude is often used in different contexts: ‘The winner is the one who masters the two sides of the battlefield’. Part of my research is in rereading Chinese culture in a Western context.’ CHEN ZHEN