Jundan Chen
Jundan Chen (b.1998) is a London-based multimedia artist exploring materiality, memory, and transformation through textiles, glass, and metal. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, she founded X.salis Studio in 2023. Her work has been exhibited in leading London galleries including Purist Gallery, and ArtSect Gallery, and has participated in major group exhibitions such as the London Design Festival at Surge Chapter. Her work has been featured in international and industry publications including 1883 Magazine and Schön Magazine.
Artwork Name: Rootlessness
‘Rootlessness’ explores the emotional landscape of transition, the fragile and uncertain space between disintegration and regeneration. The work takes the form of a hybrid object, part container and part germinating seed. Its transparent body and sinuous handle echo the shape of a vase, suggesting the presence of a container, yet it is pierced and wrapped by a mesh of metal roots. These roots both penetrate and extend from the glass, as if looking for a place to land. This sculpture was created out of the artist's experience of leaving her comfort zone and rediscovering a place to land and a new identity. This is the moment after being uprooted and before being re-rooted , it is a state of suspension, vulnerability and transformation. It speaks to the discomfort and possibility of starting again, not from external stability, but from inner truth.
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Artwork Name: The Trace of Empty
‘The Trace of Empty’ explores the delicate interplay between presence and absence. A hollow space carved within solid glass evokes a quiet tension—emptiness that is not void, but potential. Torn silver leaf traces growth, like fragile memories embedded in stillness. The work invites reflection on how the unseen—what is hidden, silent, or intangible—shapes form, emotion, and time.
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