floating roots documentary

meet me in the woods is an installation by Swiss Anglo-Chinese artist Angela Lyn presented at the West Bund Art Fair in Shanghai. It is the first part of a trilogy of silk works to be shown in three locations in China this autumn/winter 2025.
With this conscious choice of medium, Lyn’s installation recalls centuries of silk that have connected east and west. Bypassing shipping crates, she returns to China with the entire body of work in her luggage.

Redefining her cedar and landscape paintings inspired by the view from her studio window in Lugano, southern Switzerland – a subject the artist has pursued for several decades – Lyn’s silk works align closely with her enquiries as a painter. She uses the woods as a metaphor for both refuge and uncertainty in a world driven ever faster by technology.

Part Two of Lyn’s China Project will be filmed in Gulangyu, Fujian, where her Chinese family originates, and in the occasion of her exhibition floating roots, pieces of home, the return, to be held at Kulangsu Contemporary Center for Art, December 2025.