BIO

陈戈, a.k.a Aeri Chen, is a Chinese-Canadian graphic designer, graphic novelist, and filmmaker, currently pursuing her BA in Art Practice and Comparative Literature from Stanford University, to graduate with Honors in The Arts and the Guillia Webster McFarland Award in Design. As a freelance designer and illustrator, she has worked with game company MiHoYo, LinLei International’s 2024 book Industrial Upstairs, and Stanford Graphic Novel Project’s All City. Her installation and sculptural work have been included in the exhibition Across Boundaries, in Shen Zhen, China. Chen will be working as a graphic designer, illustrator, and animator post-graduation, while continuing her own artistic musings and story projects.

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Artist Statement

My relation with my work is that of a lamp-welding traveler who frequents nightly limbos and seeks the forgotten things. I work interdisciplinarily with light and color — drawn, installed, projected— as I amble across the isolated realm of bygones, memories, and dreams. These are the drowned-out noises of contemporary life and the melancholic crypt of sunsetted evenings, in it I isolate soft remains once endearing, hazy embraces reduced to obsolescence, and little moments—diminished by relativity of time and scale— which used to mean something or maybe never meant anything at all. A fraction of a second, a patch of sky, I treat each addition to the lost-and-found with quirk and interest, frankness and intrigue. I make my acquaintance with these humble subjects of that final destination — that muted and slumberous domain, the kingdom of passed by and once was.