Chen Chen Yu: Dream of the Eggs

An egg is a difficult thing to carry. It demands a particular kind of sturdy tenderness. And yet we carry eggs across chosen and unchosen distances, under conditions that are both safe and unsafe. The exhibition by Taiwanese artist and current MeetFactory resident Chen Chen Yu draws inspiration from a specific history: in 1945, when hundreds of thousands of German-speaking families were expelled from the Czech borderlands, they were given limited time to pack and strict limits on what they could carry. How were eggs carried in such conditions?

Those borderlands sustained a dispersed glass industry, in which a single bead might pass through many different households before being completed, a form of knowledge that lived in hands, passing skills through bodies across the hills. The expulsion severed this body of knowledge. Dream of the Eggs approaches this amputation sideways, through the fragile logic of the egg.

The egg dreams of growing limbs, of no longer needing to be carried, of moving on its own. It is a body yet to come, with limbs yet to arrive. The expelled glassworkers dreamed of limbs too: the blowpipe, the furnace, the bodily apparatus of craft. Dream and phantom limb point in two different temporal directions - one toward a body still to come, the other toward a body already gone. Dream of the Eggs also contemplates how a body holds itself together, through the limbs it recognizes and those it disavows.

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Chen Chen Yu: Dream of Eggs 
residency floor, studio 39 
5. 6. – 28. 6. 2026 
opening: 4. 6., 18:00 within Soirée event

The exhibition is open every Monday and Wednesday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. During these hours, you can also visit the FOTOFUTURES 2026 exhibition.

Free event