Eve Chen, (b.2000) was born in Shanghai, China, currently works between SH, Glasgow and London. Her current practices are mainly based on creative writing to produce images and theatre experiments, paintings, and installations, discussing the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction around the proximity of her own life, in recent practice, she uses a low-tech approach to reproduce the coupling in the image production process through multimedia; exploring identity politics, visual culture. Most of her experimental theater survives temporarily in the field and remains in video archives.

She graduated from Glasgow School of Art, M.Litt Fine Art Practice Photography and Moving Image and owns an Excellent Graduate of Shanghai City Award from her B.A. in Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Public Art.

The two moving images I made recently focus on the camera following a woman as she wanders through the streets. I suddenly realized that “walking” is so important to me. Sometimes she has no destination, and sometimes she simply roams around her home. Sometimes this woman is myself, sometimes my mother, and sometimes someone else. It doesn’t really matter. I want to portray this outside of traditional narrative structures. Sometimes a woman doesn’t need to do anything in the film—she just walks, and random thoughts and events happen. She is the protagonist in my view, while the rest of the pedestrians on the street fade into the background.

I am tired of creating or inventing new visual styles. I always feel that this is driven by strong personal will or just a ‘little cleverness’ meant to advance a particular medium.