Chen Gao

Chen Gao participates for the first time in an exhibition organized by M A D S Art Gallery on the occasion of "ARTOXIC" She explores the fantasy of ideal freedom that extracts from the real world and asserts the power of unconsciousness and dreams This is all about her emotional life of being. Investigating ourselves is not easy, because the inner conflict is always around the corner and we never know what we are going to encounter: we could find ourselves in the middle of a jungle, go along a winding road, be in front of an endless climb or inside a dark cave. With Chen Gao and her "Growth & Resides", our interiority becomes a black and white space, populated by undefined figures that recall something that is born in conditions of rich humidity: mushrooms. In winter, the mushrooms go to a sort of hibernation, and then begin to reappear close to spring, when there is a gradual increase in temperatures It is what very often our memories and thoughts, which are born especially in the most difficult situations, do so that they are concealed in us and then recur, asking us to settle the bill. We human beings are containers of the best and the worst, we grow and regress at the same time, we are residues of our experiences and seeds for the future. Chen Gao teaches us that we are work in progress, that we need time and care: and it is worth it, especially not to leave our inner world that will never stop being populated and inhabited, day after day, because we are buildings under construction, and we will always be.

Art Curator Sara Grasso