While writing a letter to his lover, Chen Ching-Yuan realized no words could describe his contradictory feelings; no art form he had tried before could express the complexity of the crisis he was going through. Unravel is an unlikely piece within the oeuvre of an artist we know as a painter precisely because it marks a definitory moment in his career: one in which he chose paintings as his medium of choice. Unravel should be read as a love letter in six chapters that express the intricacy of a romantic relationship. Each diptych should be opened with great care, knowing that its opening can unravel a universe of emotion; “For me, the work is not so much a painting as it is an object I have fabricated; an object that is a relic of some forgotten time, amalgamating some identifiable aesthetic styles, but which cannot be accurately pinpointed or categorised.” Chen Ching-Yuan ...
