‘She Is a Tree’
Curated by MFA Curating year2 Student Yidan Chen
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She Is a Tree unfolds through the body, material, and slow growth. The exhibition resists fixed meanings, remaining with repetition, pause, and states of becoming, where care, fatigue, and persistence emerge as lived conditions.
Drawing from ecofeminist thinking, the exhibition reflects on how women’s bodies and natural environments are co-shaped by extractive and gendered structures. Care and sustained labour appear not as private or sentimental gestures, but as essential yet often invisible forms of maintenance.
Through painting, installation, and moving image, She Is a Tree proposes growth as endurance—an ongoing negotiation with vulnerability, exhaustion, and interdependence.
Dates | 3 January - 7 February 2026, every Saturday by appointment (through the link in
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Opening | 2 January, 4 - 8 pm
Venue | Small Gallery, 12 Blakeney Cl, London N20 9LH
Artists | Chufan Cao, George Harris, Jiatong Yuan, Kate Shorey, Millie Barton, Yan Wu, Zoey Yang
Yidan Chen is a curator based in London, Chengdu and Shanghai. Her practice explores the connections between women, nature, and everyday experience in contemporary art.
Her recent research focuses on female personal journaling as a form of artistic and curatorial practice, including diaries, notes, letters, and other intimate modes of recording. Through exhibitions and writing, she is interested in how personal narratives, embodied experiences, and quiet forms of expression can create alternative ways of understanding the world.
