Siyuan Chen

Siyuan Chen is a multidisciplinary artist working across installation, performance, moving image, sound, and digital media. His practice explores the fragility of human relationships within contemporary society, particularly the unstable emotional conditions produced through digital communication, surveillance, and mediated interaction. Through materials such as sand, silicone, light, sound, fabric, and projected imagery, Chen constructs immersive environments that oscillate between tension and vulnerability, connection and collapse.

Influenced by thinkers including Byung-Chul Han, Maurice Blanchot, Mark Fisher, and Jean-Luc Nancy, his work examines how contemporary systems of efficiency, data, and accelerated communication gradually erode spaces for intimacy, uncertainty, and genuine dialogue. His installations often combine industrial structures with fragile, skin-like surfaces, creating bodily forms that appear simultaneously nourished and exhausted, suspended between organic matter and artificial systems.

Currently studying at the Glasgow School of Art, Chen’s recent projects focus on affective feedback, distorted communication, and the unstable emotional landscapes of the twenty-first century.