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现工作生活于广州，自2020年她以“姑婆屋”项目为核心，关注上世纪初期西江流域的女性社区现象，探寻并记录姑婆屋的遗址，以此展开不同媒介的创作，提供不一样的叙事和经验，探讨自主性、人与土地的连接和如何讲一个故事。已出版艺术家书《绝情种》(2022)及《看似无害》(2022)。2015年获得伦敦艺术大学切尔西学院纯艺术学士学位，2016年获黃边站（广州）研究资助，2017-2022年共同组织艺术小组"女子天团"，期间发起并组织多项公共活动。

陈嘉璐亲身到达珠三角各个城镇，追溯及研究珠三角自梳女（当地亦称“姑婆”）群体和姑婆屋的聚散和轨迹，关注姑婆从西江流域至东南亚的流动记忆和路线。她尝试探讨人与土地的关系，对消逝的网络进行追踪，以此展开与他们的对话，并生长出不同媒介的创作，包括装置、摄影、织物刺绣和写作，意在重新书写经验，提供不一样的叙事和样本。

She is now living and working in Guangzhou. Since 2020, she has been focusing on the phenomenon of women's communities in the Xijiang River basin in the early 1900s with her project "Gupouk", exploring and documenting the ruins of Comb Sisters’ houses and create works in different media, to provide different narratives and experiences, exploring autonomy, the connection between people and the land and how to tell a story. She has published her own artist books, "Cold Hearted"(2022) and "Seemingly Harmless"(2022). She gained Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Chelsea College, University of the Arts London in 2015, was awarded a research grant by the HB Station of Contemporary Art Research Center (Guangzhou) from 2016-2017, and co-organised the art group 'NZTT Sewing Co-op' from 2017-2022, during this period, she initiated and organized a number of public events.

Chen Jialu has travelled to various towns in the Pearl River Delta to trace and field research the history and trajectory of the group of comb sisters (also known locally as 'Gupo') and comb sisters houses, focusing on the memories and routes of the movement of comb sisters from the Xijiang River basin to Southeast Asia. She attempts to explore the relationship between people and the land, tracing the fading networks and thus initiating a dialogue with them, meanwhile creates different mediums of art works, including installation, photography, fabric embroidery and writing, with the intention of rewriting the experience and providing a different narrative and sample.