Visual artist KEVIN CHIE Follow.Art Card

About me

My art is an act of documentation and memory, capturing the intimacy of shared moments, a testament to our existence while questioning the objectivity of what we see and remember.

Living as a non-binary, neurodiverse person and a child from many divorces from mixed racial backgrounds—Black in West Europe and white in West Africa—has taught me to embrace the idea of simultaneity: of stories, opposites, truths, identities, sensations, thoughts.

Through emotionally charged, large-scale oil and acrylic paintings, I frame bodies within architectural spaces — windows, mirrors, and walls — and create intersecting compositions that reveal intertwined simultaneous truths. In-betweenness and intersection: In the same spirit, my cardboard sculptures speak of human and spiritual experience through ambiguous compositions of body parts in varying degrees of abstraction.

Connection and belonging are at the heart of my work, reflecting not only my relationships with loved ones but also a connection to the deeply human experiences of those whose humanity is often dismissed, as well as my quest for ancestral knowledge and spirituality in a world fragmented by colonialism.

By painting quiet moments of connection, particularly featuring non-white bodies in repose, I want to grant dignity and present these figures as precious, deserving of the time and effort to archive their existence, capturing the essence of togetherness while balancing vulnerability and respect, proximity and distance.

I aspire for my art to be a source of healing and pause, an expressive archive of connection and multi-layered truths, inviting you to rest your eyes like a view from a train window.