Gorgeous

20 framed 60×90 cm and one 120×180 cm C-prints on aluminium, 2006

Teresa Chen, as a photographer, does not approach objects from the outside. She uses her camera to track things down, and she also prefers the close-up view. While scanning the surfaces, the artist deliberately avoids the prohibitions that determine the classical concept of beauty. In exciting compositions, she often combines beauty with something disgusting, harmonious, erotic, sexual zones, or with situations that are disfigured, shameless, gruesome.

The artist is currently presenting a series of flower pictures. Those who are familiar with the close-up pictures of her body will recognize also in those pictures the main features of Chen’s aesthetics.

A significant increase is due to the specific choice of the motif. With the penetration of the flowering area through blood-like fluid, Teresa Chen achieves a high level of tension: beauty appears under the spell of Eros and death.

Ruth Littman, from the press release for Gorgeous (select “Show Information”)