Ongoing Narratives by Yi Hsuan Lai

Issue 160

I incorporate photography, sculptures made by polymer clay, and found objects to create assemblages that reflect the fluidity of the body, the complexity of self-identity, and Otherness. I also experiment with the materiality of my photographs to create a dialogue between tangible sensibility and tactile ambiguity within a space. The sense of proliferation in my work reflects my emigrating experience – the uncertainty and fluidity of people’s status. My work travels through construction and deconstruction, animate and inanimate, in two and three dimensions, to revalue the one-time use of materials into a bodily and otherworldly representation.

Yi Hsuan Lai (she/her) is originally from Taiwan, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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