SHIYING CHEN
Art work overview
Not Yet Landed
Installation, 2025
Not Yet Landed explores what I describe as a suspended state—a condition that is neither fully stable nor completely collapsing, but exists somewhere in between. Through found objects associated with movement, time, and repair, the work reflects on the fragile balance that shapes contemporary life.
Rather than focusing on moments of breakdown, the installation examines the ongoing processes of adaptation that often remain unnoticed. Damaged tire rims, broken clocks, deformed records, and improvised structural elements suggest forms of interruption, instability, and unresolved temporality. Objects that have lost their original functions are reconfigured into new relationships, proposing repair not simply as restoration, but as an act of transformation.
The work considers how temporary adjustments gradually become permanent conditions, and how fragility itself can become a form of resilience. Not Yet Landed invites viewers to embrace uncertainty and recognise that meaning does not always emerge through resolution. We do not need to be fully landed to remain present; we do not need to be perfect to continue functioning.