Chen's response to pop culture and his integration of the familiar is a larger-than-life combination of the fantastical and nightmarish. For Chen, pop culture is a full-on belief system: the ethos of rap is treated like something sacred, and religious totems like Adaha (an androgynous symbol from Buddhism) mix with commercially made dragon bongs, freemason eyes and the innards of inflatable animals.
“My work is based on my personal interests and experiences in those pop-culture or sub-culture scenes—both in urban China and in the UK, through all the events and parties I was involved in. I was keen on making my work reflect our generation's life, and share the same experience with them. I took characters from cartoons or pop culture iconography that I liked, and absorbed them into my new cult symbol system. I'm trying to create a tension between pop culture and religion.”

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