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CHEN LUO                

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RESEARCH

Chen Luo is a Graphic Designer based in Maryland. She serves as a thesis adviser at MICA. She has taught at MICA, Tufts SMFA, Boston University, and UMass from 2022 to 2025. Chen is the co-founder of Body&Forma, a collective design practice focused on bridging language barriers through publishing and performative workshops. Her work has been awarded and recognized by Communication Arts, NewOne Awards, Design 360˚, Boston Art Review, and The Young Ones TDC, and exhibited in Canada, Italy, Japan, China, Korea, and the United States. Her work shares a language of reconfiguring reading/writing gestures into bodily acts, turning static materials into participatory, communal, and kinetic forms of publishing. She currently explores how embodied publishing forms a diverse readership and communal experience.
Light the Lantern

Installation;
Animation
2021

Light the Lantern is created to reflect on the Chinese film “Raise the Red Lantern” with my developed visual narrative. The installation retells the story from the film, the woman who was oppressed and objectified in the feudal society. It vividly shows the life situation of women in the patriarchal society, which criticized the feudal order and patriarchal power. The space represents a Chinese architecture, Siheyuan (a quadrangle courtyard with 4 walls). The audience moves closer, poking a hole to watch the video echoes that when people wanted to stalk anyone in ancient China, they needed to poke a hole with their fingers. The inside and outside build up two spaces that watch the Warlord era from a 21st-century perspective.
Late update in 2025