Cassidy (Yitong) Chen is a multimedia artist and designer based in NYC. Her work spans sculpture, installation, and video.

Cassidy’s practice explores everyday objects in ways that challenge unspoken expectations, rooted in the long-standing associations we assign to their purpose. She replicates familiar objects using widely recognized shapes, symbols, and dynamics, but disrupts their conventional functions and attributes to create a sense of detachment within everyday contexts. Her work experiments with estrangement, ambiguity, and openness—questioning how representation communicates, associates, and constructs meaning.

Through this intervention in everyday objects, Cassidy seeks to draw attention to the norms and limitations hidden behind the behavioral patterns we take for granted. She believes that creativity and resistance are inherently present in common actions, and her work aims to creatively navigate and challenge established structures.

chenyitong1225@gmail.com

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