Through staged photography and sculptural installation, Yi Hsuan Lai: Rubber, Rubber investigates the materiality of perception and embodiment. Working with overlooked objects, Lai senses in their rawness a potential for renewal and communal belonging. Skin-like rubber forms are projected into space, interwoven with raw materials, found objects, and the artist’s own body. These ephemeral assemblages collapse distinctions between photograph and sculpture, surface and volume—echoing both psychological and corporeal landscapes.
A hidden projection installation invites the viewer to imagine the unseen layers of each photograph, conjuring a disorienting intimacy where boundaries dissolve, identity becomes fluid, and inhabiting another consciousness becomes possible.
