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Angela Chen (she/her) is a Taiwanese-American artist and educator, currently based in Houston, TX, on the ancestral land of the Karankawa, Coahuiltecan, Atakapa-Ishak, and Sana peoples.

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︎ angela@angelachen.info
︎ @dan.yeongki

Touch Screen Sensitivity

The photo-text-textiles in Touch Screen Sensitivity — cyanotypes printed on recycled cotton muslin, bleached and toned with natural dyes derived from plants and kitchen scraps — weave together meditations on multispecies encounter. Focusing on low-to-the-ground life-forms like weeds and tadpoles, the work challenges the “omniscient” perspective of conventional landscape photography, instead attending to the resiliency and adaptability of small organisms in human-altered ecologies. The works also respond to contemporary habits of image consumption by drawing on the traditional forms of the Chinese screen and scroll. Rejecting distracted modes of engagement with “dematerialized” pictures, the screens and scrolls in Touch Screen Sensitivity cultivate slow, sensuous, and attentive modes of looking. Produced through time-, weather-, and temperature-dependent processes, and with materials from my immediate surroundings, each piece materializes intimate, vulnerable, and responsive relationships between human and more-than-human beings.