Reassembly

This body of work explores the process of piecing memories back together. Working with bold forms and refined colour palettes, Annie Pei-Hsuan Chen creates visual fragments that echo the way memories shift, dissolve, and reassemble over time.

Many of the compositions hint at architectural structures or puzzle-like arrangements. Shapes are built, taken apart, and put back together, creating an ongoing dialogue between construction and deconstruction. Through this process, familiar forms lose their fixed meanings and open up new ways of seeing.

Underlying this visual language is a tension between structure and freedom. Growing up between strict discipline and creative encouragement, Chen developed a visual language that balances structure with spontaneity. This push and pull continues to shape her practice today, where carefully balanced geometry meets intuitive colour and movement.

For Chen, colour functions as a personal language — one that carries emotion and memory beyond literal representation. Through these assembled fragments of form and colour, the paintings become spaces where past experiences are reconfigured into something new.