Allen Zewen Yu is a landscape architect and artist whose work focuses on the relationship between materials, processes, and their surrounding environments.

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My work explores the relationship between material, memory, and cultural inheritance. Drawing from my background and lived experience within the Asian diaspora, I am interested in how traditions are translated, fragmented, and reassembled across contexts.

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I often work with familiar forms and symbols, such as fruit, flowers, and domestic objects, distilling them into simplified gestures. These elements function as carriers of everyday life while remaining open to reinterpretation.

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Material and form plays a central role in my process. Through making, repetition, and transformation, I treat materials not just as a medium but as a way of thinking. The physical act of forming becomes a method of negotiating identity, where tension exists between preservation and adaptation, permanence and change.

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Rather than presenting fixed narratives, my work creates space for ambiguity and projection. I am interested in how viewers bring their own histories into encounter with the work, allowing meaning to shift across cultural and personal boundaries.