Yen Chun Lin (TW, 1990) & Gediminas Žygus (LT, 1991)
Residency period: January-March 2026
Since 2023, Taiwanese artist Yen Chun Lin and Lithuanian artist Gediminas Žygus have been working together on sound installations and performances, presented at venues including Creamcake (Berlin), the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius.
Lin describes their practice as unfolding between states of falling asleep and waking, and existing between life and death. Through sculptural soundscapes, performance, and storytelling, they trace themes of silence, darkness, vulnerability, and love.
Žygus, who lives in Berlin, moves fluidly between narrative design, performance, albums, and short films. Their work has been shown at the Barbican Centre (London), La Biennale di Venezia, Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), ICA London, and beyond.
Together, the two artists venture into the unknown through sound, dreams, and stories, composing immersive, poetic works that merge visceral intensity with subtle perception.
During their residency at La Becque, Yen Chun Lin and Gediminas Žygus will develop Tunnel, a project that delves into absence, darkness, and intimacy with the unknown. Interlacing dreams, sounds, and stories, the work follows figures that slip between bodies and species, conjuring legends of mountains and oceans, moving in and out of light and shadow, and drifting through shifting, fluid realms. Tunnel will unfold as an album of what the artists describe as “oceanic intimacy,” a passage through tunnels and landscapes that will also manifest in an acoustically site-specific performance. Rooted in research on spectral entities, darkness, and the oceanic unknown, the project invites audiences into a sensory space where connection arises from absence and the boundaries between beings begin to dissolve.
Yen Chun Lin, photo Gedvile Tamosiunaite
Gediminas Zygus, photo Mykolas Valantinas