“… The show comprises an entirely new series of artworks, ranging from small to medium scale, where the artists’ idiosyncratic styles meet and confront each other. This dialogue between their works results in a mutual enhancement, intensifying irony and elevating the visual lexicon. The unexpected elements in their pieces carry a destabilizing, almost surreal beauty.

Chen and Takagi both maintain a strong connection to subculture, history, and religion, and offer fierce criticisms of hypocritical social establishments. These fundamental factors interact in unique ways, creating an unprecedented, multidirectional thread that takes the viewer on an aesthetic journey full of wonders and sardonic innuendos…”