My practice begins from bodily experience and states of perception. I focus on how experience, before it has fully settled, is often quickly translated—within the production and reception of contemporary art—into concepts, narratives, or judgments. I stay close to the threshold between perception as it occurs and perception as it becomes understood, and to what is lost in that passage: weight, material presence, and openness.

My work does not aim to construct a fixed narrative or a stable symbol. Instead, I am concerned with the conditions under which a work can resist being reduced to a single meaning too quickly. Through layering, covering, misalignment, and subtle shifts in surface, I treat the work as a perceptual structure—one in which experience emerges gradually through viewing and encounter, yet remains unfinished and never fully graspable.

Chen Ye is an artist from China and holds a graduate degree in Painting from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milan). Her work is ongoing rather than conclusive: the artworks do not “solve” a predefined question, but remain open fields where perception, judgment, and experience can reappear, drift, and return.