Jia-Jen Lin

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Jia-Jen Lin is a MFA student at the School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston (SMFA).

Artist’s statement:

My inspiration comes from my life experience, self intuition, and my body. I present a series of documentary for my wearable sculpture. Through enlarging part of my body, I express my awareness of the different appearance from others in foreign culture. Identity, self consciousness, and displacement are shown in my work.

By using artificial material, I coagulate my emotion into objects. Black vinyl tubing, this flexible sculpture creates various shapes as I move. I interact with vinyl tubing which symbolizes I have a conversation with myself. As reviewing this record of sculpture work, performing element is shown in my still pictures which made the hair sculpture completed. By bringing sculpture, performance, and photography into my work, I transform my consciousness into visible self-examination.