Artist of the month

Liang-Jung Chen

Liang-Jung Chen (b. Taipei) is a London-based artist building nuanced situations from the artefacts and infrastructures that quietly underpin everyday life. Rooted in an embodied approach to material culture, Chen stages systems of subtle tension that expand materiality beyond the familiar.

Chen’s work for Post Bar translates a live spreadsheet documenting the labour undertaken to fund a UK Indefinite Leave to Remain application into a printed poster. Originally used as a practical tool to track a savings goal, the spreadsheet is reconfigured as a visual record of administrative pressure, reflecting how systems of migration control and border governance operate through everyday lived experience.