Gene Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition “I Survived The Solo Exhibition”, by artist Chen Leng, on view from August 30 to October 20, 2025.

“At the beginning of this year, I acquired a vintage T-shirt from the United States, a commemorative garment created by survivors in the aftermath of a devastating storm. Reflecting on conversations with fellow artists, I observe that an exhibition often resembles a storm: at times, it nourishes like long-awaited rain; at others, it brings financial loss; and more often, it evokes a hollow experience within an imagined, idealized landscape. Now, as the next storm approaches, how should I survive as an artist?”
— Chen Leng

This exhibition primarily presents Chen Leng’s Chaos! series, created between 2021 and 2025. The series draws on tropical storms that occur annually in the Northwest Pacific—events systematically named and numbered. In Chen’s work, these natural phenomena are not confined to the interpretation of surface imagery; instead, images and data associated with each storm are reconstructed across multiple media—including painting, video, writing, and digital experimentation—to explore the liminal space between order and disorder, certainty and uncertainty.

Storms serve not only as intense meteorological events but also as metaphors for social and psychological realities. They disrupt stable systems while simultaneously generating new possibilities in the aftermath of destruction. The analogy between artistic practice and natural storms is not a mere metaphor, but a resonance in reality: through continuous questioning and reconstruction, the artist navigates a foothold within turbulence and uncertainty, using creative strategies to retain and process experiences of disorder.