Yuchin Chen. Photo: Hsuan Li
Yuchin Chen has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025 in collaboration with the Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan).
Yuchin Chen is a Taiwanese multimedia artist, currently based in Berlin. Yuchin’s works deal with the senses of harmony/disharmony and association/disassociation between the time, space and self, often from the perspective of digital mediation, signal translation, and listening to explore new forms of understanding and perceiving the environment around us.
Yuchin Chen. I hear that I am limestone by the sea, 2025.
“I hear that I am limestone by the sea” is an artistic research project that explores the boundaries of senses, materiality, and time through the study of limestone situated between ocean and land. Shaped over millennia by geological transformations, high temperatures, immense pressure, and the accumulation of biological remnants, limestone can be seen as a dynamic archive—one that stores and carries environmental data, including tectonic shifts, ecological changes, and geological and biological processes across oceanic and planetary scales, along with information yet to be deciphered. These archives are not closed or static but porous, permeable, and open, constantly exchanging with their surroundings. Through interactions with living organisms, water currents, waves, erosion, and renewal, limestone perpetually reinterprets its environment, forming a fluid epistemic field. The artwork engages with the materiality, structure, and composition of limestone, employing processes of deconstruction and casting to translate its internal, porous archive spaces into sculptural and sonic objects. By centering tactile perception and listening, the project experiments with and proposes an alternative mode of geological sensing.