CheDaShan, CHERUBY’s ongoing series of informal conversations, brings together its first three episodes in a single presentation. For this edition, we invited CHERUBY resident artist Bárbara Sánchez-Kane and SAMUEL GUÌ YANG designer Samuel Yang to engage in three meandering and open-ended conversations across different settings.

Beginning with the idea of “gifts” exchanged between designers, the discussions explore how clothing becomes a vessel for memory and self-expression; move into the studio, where discomfort, instability, and creative processes come into focus; and conclude with reflections on origin, belonging, and imagined notions of home from the perspective of two outsiders living in Shanghai.

From time to time, CHERUBY invites friends and resident artists to CheDaShan—to chat about anything and everything. The conversation might begin with artworks and drift toward dinner plans. These informal exchanges can happen anywhere, and digressions are encouraged. Pull up a chair and eavesdrop.

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CheDaShan (扯大山) Episode 01.

What do fashion designers gift each other? 🤔

This episode starts with a simple question: what did they choose to give each other?

For fashion designers, beyond fabric and tailoring, a garment is also a container of memory and expression. When two designers meet for the first time, there may be no better gift than their own work.

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CheDaShan (扯大山) Episode 02.

When a homebody artist decides to go on residency

This conversation takes place in Bárbara’s studio, circling around the idea of “uncomfortable creation.”

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CheDaShan (扯大山) Episode 03.

Two outsiders in Shanghai

Bárbara Sánchez-Kane and Samuel Yang—one from Mérida, Mexico, the other from Guangdong, China—this episode follows two outsiders in Shanghai as they talk about distant homes.