With her family story as the point of departure, Lin Yi-Chi traces trajectories of diaspora among the Kinmen community.

Kinmen people were forced to become immigrants due to the war and unrest. The lucky ones took root in a foreign land, while the unfortunate ones died as strangers in the waves of the South China Sea. The scenery, language, and culture of their homeland became distant and blurry memories. In Transoceanic Practice, the artist follows the path of her family's elders, spanning Kinmen, Taiwan, and Indonesia, and presents the plight of overseas migrants through an anchor, surrounded by three neon signs “Forever is (not) Eternity”. The installation mediates the confusion of descendants of the overseas migrants about their nationality and identity. On the wall displays images of Kinmen's Houpu Port, which was the port of departure, and the landing point of Bangka Island in Indonesia. The images are juxtaposed with poetic lines in Hokkien, Chinese, Indonesian, and English, which render imagination on and adaptation of here and elsewhere for the drifters.

Will forever be eternal? A drifter is always on a journey of practice, an endless effort of becoming on foreign soil.