Che Yeh

Artist Statement

Drawing inspiration from moments of intercultural contact in history, I create situations that bring forward the less-told moments of entanglement, and then, introduce the transformative proposition these collective experiences could suggest. These situations often take shape in the form of multimedia installation and video. 

The installation usually involves a combination of transitive materials such as food, plants, archival materials, publications, and so on. By bringing in various forms of temporality, I try to work against the static pastness of the archive and treat it more as a setting for the past meeting future. These speculative alternatives invite people to gather, study, and imagine in a space that highlights the unstable states and the porousness of bodily boundaries, and horizontalize the relationship between humans and biota—presenting them all as actors vying for efficacy.