Portable Passages explores memory, personal ritual, and cultural identity through everyday objects and materials. Ko Jou Chen combines metals, paper, and cardboard to create a series of miniature objects that reflect the collections people often keep in a corner of their living space. Through the concept of portability, Chen examines how rituals and memories are carried and reinterpreted across spaces and time, particularly within the transient nature of modern life. By transforming humble materials into carefully crafted forms, Portable Passages challenges traditional notions of preciousness and permanence, embracing the intrinsic qualities of the materials.
Ko Jou Chen is a Taiwanese artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work explores the ideas of private time, personal rituals, cultural identity, and memory. Playing with the composition of geometric shapes, she creates jewellery and objects that reflect her connection to heritage and personal experience. Through a material-driven practice, she investigates how amalgamated metals and materials can be manipulated to create shape and form.
Jewellery