Chang Yuchen’s artistic project Use Value is currently on view in the group exhibition The Endless Garment – Atlantic Basin at Pioneer Works. The Endless Garment: Atlantic Basin is an ongoing transnational exhibition project that studies the ways in which Asian fashion production is represented. Curated by Jeppe Ugelvig, the exhibition features work by Serena Chang, Chang Yuchen, CFGNY, Huang Po-Chih, and Shanzhai Lyric, alongside garments designed by Benjamin Cho, feyfey Worldwide, United Bamboo, and Amy Yao. While earlier iterations used the South China Sea as a conceptual starting point, Atlantic Basin responds to the specificity of New York City—particularly Red Hook, once a major entry point for goods shipped to the United States, and a site that remains deeply connected to the Asian and global textile trade. 

Chang Yuchen began producing work under the moniker Use Value in 2016. In the decade since, Use Value priced its commodities in accordance with the value of the artist’s time, which fluctuated as Yuchen drifted from various labor markets ranging from the service industry to academia.

As a whole, The Endless Garment: Atlantic Basin contests the potential of fashion as a container for imagining community, identity, heritage, and history in both a local and transnational sense.