Unknown Art Territories #2 Digitalmag_Testv2 | Page 22

Timeout Shanghai stated
that, „Part of what makes
Chen‘s work interesting
is his seeming oblivious-
ness to what is and isn‘t
appropriate, especially in
a country where culture
is micromanaged. There‘s
courage in his creation of
weed and masturbation
icons, his celebration of
bad taste, and his disre-
gard for copyright and re-
ligious (and other) sensi-
tivities. „I can‘t just stay in
one thing,“ Chen says.
„I can’t just paint the
same thing again and
again. I‘d lose my passion.
I lost my passion for
fashion, so I’m not
gonna do it again.“
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