This website is part of an ongoing art project titled 'FACTORY', created by Dongyan Chen.

'FACTORY' is a work that discusses the fictional storyworld, transmedia storytelling, immersive experience, and narratives in moving images. It aims to explore a new approach of storytelling.

'FACTORY' was first inspired by Chinese Buddhist art and traditional European art. I am investigating the mythology and symbolism in different cultures, trying to look for the similarities and possible intersections, and connections between them. By reorganising, intertwining, and combining the elements that appeared the most in the different cultures and arts, such as ‘hands’ and ‘eyes’, I reimagine a new story about a fictional historical institute, FACTORY, that focused on the research of HANDS, EYES, PLANTS and OBJECTS.

Chen Dongyan is a multidisciplinary artist based in Singapore. Her practice is primarily based on video and installations, but also consists of various media such as drawing, writing, sculptures, and photography. Her current research is focusing on exploring narrative methodologies through storyworld with the mechanism of transmedia storytelling.

Chen received a Bachelor of Fine Art(Hons) from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2018. Part of her past exhibitions include Deja Vu at Freud Museum (London), Orphaned Memories and Pressure Drop at SomoS Arts House (Berlin), Across Pieces of Sky at Trocadero Art Space (Melbourne), and Bidirectional Intervention at JinChuang Art Space, (Nanjing). She is the recipient of Dr Winston Oh Postgraduate Study Grant in 2023.