In Somewhere Beyond Right and Wrong, There is a Garden. I Will Meet You There, artist Yin-Ju CHEN weaves together found footage, travel documentation, and animated visions of the mythological healer Chiron. Inspired by Rumi’s poetry, the film meditates on human suffering, healing and the cosmic cycles of life and death.
Moving beyond individual subjectivity, Chen invites viewers into a space of spiritual inquiry, where perception expands and communion becomes possible. This quietly powerful work reflects Chen’s ongoing exploration of mysticism, collective trauma, and the intersections of the personal and the planetary.
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Yin-Ju CHEN
Director
Yin-Ju CHEN (she/her)
Director
Taipei (Taiwan)
Artist Yin-Ju Chen interprets social power and history through cosmological systems. Utilising astrology, sacred geometries and alchemical symbols, she considers human behaviour, nationalism, imperialism, state violence, totalitarianism, utopian formations and collective thinking.
Recently, she has been exploring the material effects of spiritual, shamanic and Buddhism practices and the metaphysical potentialities of consciousness.
She has participated in many international exhibitions and film festivals, such as Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Shanghai Biennial, Taipei Biennial (2023, 2020, 2012. *2020 edition touring to Centre Pompiduo-Metz in 2021), Exterior: The Science of Collective Consciousness at Tate Modern Starr Cinema, Close Your Eyes and You Will Know: Another Knowledge Is Possible II at ICA at NYU Shanghai, The Modern Exorcist and Art Histories of a Forever War: Modernism between Space and Home at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Space Oddity at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Gwangju Biennale, the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Transmediale, Liverpool Biennial, Forum Expanded at 66th Berlinale, Biennial of Sydney, Yin-Ju Chen: Extrastellar Evaluations, Action at a Distance–Yin-Ju Chen Solo Exhibition, the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum Biennale.
From 2010-2011, she was one of the artist-in-residence at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Netherlands. In 2016 she was invited to the residency program at KADIST San Francisco to work on her first solo exhibition in the US.
Yin-Ju Chen lives and works in Taipei.
Part of Between Breath & Lens: A curation of international short films
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2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
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