Lai Chih-Sheng 賴志盛

Lai Chih-Sheng 賴志盛

BornNationalityBased In
1971TaiwaneseBeijing, Taipei
Biography

Delicate interventions in space and the landscape – a pulled thread, a hole gathering droplets of water, a tree emerging from the walls. Lai Chih-Sheng (b. 1971, Taiwan) pursues a practice that plays with tension, the everyday and personal encounters across multiple mediums in particular installation and sculpture. There is a playful minimalism in the way he observes detail and creates relationships between different parts of a room, engaging the viewer’s sense of body and presence. During the 1990s Lai Chih-Sheng was a member of the conceptual art group National Oxygen, presenting his early work in disused structures around the periphery of Taipei, which often involved seemingly futile labour. As such, there are certain pervading traits throughout his work: an affinity to environment and space, a sense of expanse, a lyrical delicacy that engages our curiosity. ...

Selected Artworks
Bricks on the crossbeam 樑上的磚塊
Lai Chih-Sheng 賴志盛
Bricks on the crossbeam 樑上的磚塊, 2023
11.5 x 21.3 x 9.3cm
Paint Cans_Titan Buff / Cobalt Blue 顏料罐 Titan Buff / Cobalt Blue
Lai Chih-Sheng 賴志盛
Paint Cans_Titan Buff / Cobalt Blue 顏料罐 Titan Buff / Cobalt Blue, 2023
8 x 8 x 8cm
Biennals
Taipei Biennial2018 - Taipei
Taipei Biennial2018 - Taipei
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