Almost mapped and charted

What does it mean to inhabit a body? Emily Chen's paintings and drawings eschew narrative, seeking to distill from the accidents of personal experience intensities that are more generally shared. They explore the territory where sensation and emotion fuse. They are full of the body's engagement

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with the world, but in the form of carefully considered movement of the image that have more purchase on our own bodies than would mere gestural impulsiveness.'

(Abstract from Pleasure as Medium)

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