Stanley Chen

Stanley Chen explores the fluidity of identity and the process of seeking self through his personal diasporic experience of displacement. Leveraging self-portraiture as his primary artistic medium, Chen’s autobiographical work generates an illusory depiction of figuration. In his practice, he presents contradictory characters who exude feelings of fragility, loneliness, clumsiness, and an almost faded appearance.

MOU PROJECTS (formerly known as MINE PROJECT) is a Hong Kong-based contemporary art gallery established in 2019. Since its inception, the gallery has been dedicated to showcase both local and international emerging artists working in all media and has held many of their first solo exhibitions in Hong Kong as well as in Asia. With an aim to facilitate artistic dialogues and conceptual innovations, the gallery supports artists whose experimental practices and boundary-pushing ethos reflect the current social reality and manifest an alternative contemporary aesthetics. ...