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Inna Art Space (Zhuantang) is presenting artist Chen Xinyu’s solo project, “Blue Spike”. The project opens at 3 PM on October 12, 2025, and will be on view until November 12. This presentation brings together multiple bodies of Chen’s recent work across mediums such as wearable art, painting, and installation, exploring propositions concerning identity, order, perceptual illusions, and materiality that arise from her personal experiences.

Chen Xinyu’s work simultaneously possesses a sense of aggression and vulnerability, chaos and extreme order, filled with meandering clues and secrets. The fragmentation of masses and the splicing of particles create deliberate explosions and meticulous reorganization within a well-ordered system. Sharp “spikes” and tentacles form a defensive posture that seems impervious to violation—perhaps a manifestation of the artist's establishment and protection of personal boundaries during her transition. The precise inlay of countless mosaic fragments constitutes a macro-defense built from micro-sequences, revealing a deeper methodology in her creative practice: beneath a chaotic surface often lies a rigorous structure housing the inner self.

Inna Art Space (Zhuantang) is presenting artist Chen Xinyu’s solo project, “Blue Spike”. The project opens at 3 PM on October 12, 2025, and will be on view until November 12. This presentation brings together multiple bodies of Chen’s recent work across mediums such as wearable art, painting, and installation, exploring propositions concerning identity, order, perceptual illusions, and materiality that arise from her personal experiences.

Chen Xinyu’s work simultaneously possesses a sense of aggression and vulnerability, chaos and extreme order, filled with meandering clues and secrets. The fragmentation of masses and the splicing of particles create deliberate explosions and meticulous reorganization within a well-ordered system. Sharp “spikes” and tentacles form a defensive posture that seems impervious to violation—perhaps a manifestation of the artist's establishment and protection of personal boundaries during her transition. The precise inlay of countless mosaic fragments constitutes a macro-defense built from micro-sequences, revealing a deeper methodology in her creative practice: beneath a chaotic surface often lies a rigorous structure housing the inner self.

“Blue Spike” serves as an open metaphor extending to her other works. For instance, the sense of confusion obstructing the center of one’s vision, akin to floaters, becomes another intangible “spike”, symbolizing a perceptual barrier between the self and the external world. Her act of liberating mosaics from the permanence of walls, transforming them into wearable ornaments or paintings, is itself a “puncture” of traditional art forms, infusing them with a fluid vitality. Deeply influenced by synesthesia, Chen translates auditory textures into visual language, endowing her works with a palpable, tense melodic quality.

A swaying identity, inner sensitivity, and external defense coalesce into a paradox. Between infinite possibilities and pragmatic choices, she deliberately builds her matrix, fragment by fragment. What appears as defensive spikes and surface disorder might, in truth, harbor a hidden, intricate logic and a singular beauty.