Jiaxin chen
Artist Bio
Jiaxin Chen is a visual artist whose photographic practice explores the ethereal beauty of the natural world, with a particular focus on marine life. Her work captures fleeting moments of stillness, motion, and transformation—translating subtle visual phenomena into poetic imagery. Through her lens, ordinary elements such as light, water, and organic forms become metaphors for emotion, memory, and the transient nature of being.
Rather than presenting nature as static subject matter, Jiaxin treats it as a living presence—shifting, breathing, and quietly expressive. Her recent series, Drifting Luminescence, centres on jellyfish, using their delicate forms and fluid motion to explore ideas of emotional depth, impermanence, and quiet resilience. The works are not scientific representations, but meditative visual experiences—allowing viewers to slow down, reflect, and feel.
Jiaxin’s artistic approach combines technical precision with a deeply intuitive sense of rhythm and atmosphere. She works primarily with digital photography, often enhancing the dreamlike quality of her images through careful composition, lighting, and post-production. Each photograph becomes a still moment of reflection—inviting audiences to look beyond surface beauty and into a space of silence, sensation, and subtle transformation.
Her work has been featured in various exhibitions, both physical and digital, and continues to evolve with her ongoing exploration of nature, abstraction, and the emotional landscape of image-making.