The roles of images between fiction and reality remain the focus in I-Shu Chen's "Fake Landscape" series (2020-2024), with the influence of the Taihu stone, and the Italian artist Luigi Ghirri's photographs of amusement parks.
Based on the compositions of stacked rocks, the artist applied "rockery" into his paintings. Highlighting the cross-section lines at the base suggests the concept of real and unreal in limbo.
Taking the outbreak of Russia-Ukraine War in 2022 into account, the artist attempted to explore the abstract tug of war between frame and colour in the landscape scenes, thus providing second thoughts on the issues of boundary/ territory and boundary/positioning.