Linhuei Chen is an artist who builds worlds out of memories. Her works spring from a family history intertwined with the sea: her father and ancestors were sailors from a small island in Taiwan. The waves, the boats, and the courage of travelers become for her symbols of movement, loss, and discovery—elements that define the condition of those who live between multiple cultures, suspended between an origin and a new horizon.

Through painting, Linhuei Chen investigates what it means to belong to multiple places at once, how memory can transform and adapt—much like those who migrate. In her work, the concept of home is never fixed but fluid, constantly shifting, built from fragments of memories and encounters in the present.

This archive takes shape in what the artist calls Memory Diaspora, an imaginary world where migrating memories meet, mingle, and continue to evolve together. It is a mental and visual place in which the boundaries between past and present, East and West, dissolve to make room for new hybrid forms of identity.

Optical devices often appear in her works—viewfinders, lenses, instruments for looking—that become powerful metaphors for her transcultural experience. Through these multiple gazes, Linhuei Chen invites the audience to observe reality from different perspectives, to shift focus, and to recognize the complexity of seeing and being seen.

Her painterly universe is delicate yet densely layered, composed of strata of memory and color. Like the sea from which her story emerges, Linhuei Chen’s art is in constant motion: a flow of images that speaks to what happens when roots meet the journey, and nostalgia transforms into possibility.