Xin Cheng

Everyday resourcefulness is central to Xin Cheng’s work. Her film Seeing Like a Forest was made during the three years she lived in Hamburg, as she reflected on over a decade of research observing the small modifications to shared spaces made by non-specialists around the Asia-Pacific and Europe. Walking, talking, doing and making, Cheng learns from close looking; in this work she shows some of the approaches people take to adapting their communal environments, examples of inventive resourcefulness and heartwarming waste minimisation, captured in this work as a collective record.

(Living Archives, 25 October 2025 – 8 March 2026)