Siyu Chen (she/her) was born in Shanghai, China, raised in Shanghai and Singapore, currently based in Queens, New York. The difficulty in grasping the meaning of 'belonging' lies at the core of her work. She creates drawing, video and text, exploring the tension between the fluidity of diasporic experiences and the hegemony of meaning in reducing and flattening the body. Derived from personal and psychological experiences of displacement, she situate mundanity with seemingly outdated objects, memories, or dreams. Through a generative and vulnerable process, she reflect upon, unravel, and transgress the bifurcation between the local and the foreign.