Chen Wei

📷Chen Wei (born 1980) is a Chinese artist famous for his photography work.

In his early career, he used to deal with experimental music and later turned to photography. 

Chen’s multimedia works toe the line between experimental illusion and the quotidian realities of contemporary society, focusing on the almost imperceptible dream sequences that exist in even the most mundane of moments. 

He illustrates an intricate imagination fascinated with the eccentric and fanciful pursuits of early science, mathematics, alchemy, philosophers, and madmen. Taxidermy, broken mirrors, melted wax, bats, bees, deserted bedrooms, and found objects become the artist’s tableau.

With meticulous attention to details, Chen Wei creates mesmerizing scenes that leave the viewer puzzled by their intricate narrative, fantastic visual impact, and odd beauty. 

In some of the works, the sole human subject resembles an absorbed mad scientist or passionate poet, adding feelings of isolation or estrangement to an already bizarre scene.

His staged photographs, at once idealistic and ominous, negotiate the symbolist tropes put forward by the medium of photography.

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