Wan Lin Chang is a Taiwanese interdisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, installation, paper, and fibre. Her practice explores the relationship between material, memory, perception, and lived experience, with particular attention to invisible forces such as tension, gravity, time, and touch.
Through processes of tearing, weaving, binding, layering, and reconstruction, Chang transforms physical gestures into traces of bodily experience and memory. Her work moves between the material and immaterial, examining how fragility, absence, and emotional residue become embodied through matter and space.
Her recent practice centres on fibre, handmade paper, and ceramic. In the ongoing At the Edge of Holding series, she tears bark, cloth, and paper fibre, then stitches and reconstructs the fragments, tracing the tension between holding and rupture. These works consider the edge as both a physical condition and a threshold of perception, where materials reveal the forces that shape, sustain, and ultimately undo them.
Chang’s practice balances material experimentation with intuition and restraint, creating quiet, tactile works that invite an embodied encounter with time, space, and memory.