Yen Chun Lin (TW, 1990) & Gediminas Žygus (LT, 1991)
Residency period: January-March 2026
In the quietness of winter, some life forms seem to hibernate; in the darkness of the tunnel, they are dreaming. During the residency at La Becque, we continued our ongoing project Tunnel, focusing on the development of an album that explores the oceanic unknown.
The “oceanic unknown” is an intimate feeling within the ocean’s darkness – a space of dissolved bodies and dreams, where sensation is shaped by emotion and feeling rather than by light. Beneath the surface, all life forms are held by the same water, the same vibrations transmitted through the ocean, the same memories of a collective consciousness. By listening to the memories that flow within tunnels, our project engages with darkness, chaotic synchronization, cross-species intimacy, and spectral entities – seeking a state of existence akin to the ocean.
Sonically, our work explores the relationship between representation and the embodied feeling and memory of hybrid places, environments, regions, dimensions, and realities – the hardly graspable traces of sound, emotion, and understanding carried from a dream into a waking body. As if entering a tunnel, the sound of the previous environment is vacuumed into abstraction, leaving only frequencies felt in the body. As eyes search for recognizable shapes in the darkness and gradually give up grasping, the ears begin to see. — Yen Chun Lin & Gediminas Žygus
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.
Yen Chun Lin & Gediminas Žygus, La Becque, 2026, photo Matthieu Croizier and Aurélien Haslebacher