Faye Yan and IChin Liao are an artist duo working between memory, intuition, and material transformation. Their shared practice emerges through dialogue between performance, painting, sound, and lived experience.

Faye Yan (born in Beijing, based in Manchester) works across performance, painting, and durational practice, tracing visceral sensations of the body and their relationship to memory, ancestry, and metaphysical realities. Her work begins from an inscrutable urge — an embodied impulse that finds expression through action, mark-making, or repetition. Her works have been performed and exhibited at theatres and galleries across London, Los Angeles, Beijing and Manchester.

IChin Liao (born and based in Taipei) creates paintings that investigate psychological states through material processes of revealing and erasure, translating lived experience into tactile gestures and traces. Their practice reflects a fascination with transformation: how layers of paint, time, and emotion accumulate, disappear, and reappear through intuitive processes. Their works have been exhibited in Taiwan, South Korea, the United States, Europe and Sri Lanka.