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Bahay Contemporary

Chun Chen

(born 1986 in Shanghai, China; lives and works in Zug)


A multidisciplinary artist, Chun's work moves between text, textile, and sculpture, always in dialogue with the spaces they inhabit. Rooted in experiences of migration, she explores themes of loss, absence, and displacement, shaped by a childhood in rapidly transforming China and fifteen years of life across Europe. Domestic objects and everyday materials are central to her practice: fragile vessels of memory, care, and quiet resistance. Through them, she renders the invisible visible, giving form to silence.




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‘Horizons Unfixed’ is a series of pencil drawings inspired by encounters with the sea, from the East China Sea to the Adriatic, Mediterranean, Atlantic, and North Sea. Based on thousands of photographs taken over years of travel, the works distill shifting surfaces, light, and textures into quiet, meditative compositions. For Chun, the sea is both connector and threshold: linking continents while remaining unstable and in constant motion. It becomes a metaphor for migration, displacement, and belonging, echoing her own journey from China to Switzerland. Rather than literal depictions, the drawings translate observation and memory into subtle gradations of graphite. Delicate lines and tonal depth evoke the sea’s dual nature: calm and turbulence, continuity and change. Together, the series forms an atlas of waters: each piece reflecting distinct geographies bound by a shared language of movement. ‘Horizons Unfixed’ invites viewers to pause in the in-between space, where departure and arrival blur, and we find ourselves gently adrift in the beauty and uncertainty of the journey.







“To me, the sea is both a connector and a threshold: linking continents yet remaining unstable and in constant motion. It becomes a metaphor for migration, displacement, and belonging — shaped by my own journey from China to Switzerland.”