Chrystal Cherniwchan’s research-based, practice-led work explores materiality, memory and transformation through site-specific inquiry. Working across installations and immersive environments, alongside photography, film and sound recording she examines how spatial and environmental conditions shape and mediate experience.

A central focus of her practice is aural diversity, approached through affect and embodied perception. Attending to the plurality of situated experience she uses sound as both method and critical framework to question normative knowledge systems and the dominance of visual ways of knowing. Her work foregrounds how perception is relational and shaped by context, position and lived experience.

Through lens-based and audio documentation she gathers site-responsive traces and atmospheric, material and temporal, which inform the development of spatial works. These processes emphasise material agency and the role of environmental conditions in shaping form, revealing entanglements between human and non-human forces.

Her installations create immersive and perceptual environments that invite reflection on how we sense and understand space. By blurring boundaries between the constructed and the natural, her work opens space for alternative ways of knowing grounded in affect, embodiment and diverse lived experience.