The artwork depicts a simple, minimal composition consisting of a large, rectangular white canvas mounted on a dark backdrop. The overall scene conveys a sense of stark contrast and minimalism, with the blank white canvas serving as the central focal point. The artist's intention seems to explore the power of absence and the way in which empty space can create a strong visual impact. This piece exemplifies the minimalist approach commonly associated with contemporary art, where the artist challenges the viewer to find meaning and significance in the most fundamental elements of form and composition. ...
Lai Chih-Sheng enacts subtle, site-specific interventions that recalibrate how we sense and inhabit spaces. Whether it's sullying a carpet, drilling vertical holes through successive floors, introducing a living mosquito into an otherwise empty room, or reconnecting institutions through a playful bridge with a ping-pong table—his art works emerge from the tension between the everyday and the absurd. Lai’s interventions are striking in their minimalism and conceptual depth. He reconfigures spatial relationships to awaken the viewer’s physical and perceptual awareness, often exposing labor, consumption, and spatial memory through details that appear both ordinary and unsettling. His work embraces the self-awareness of conceptual art, acknowledging its constructed nature while inviting reflection on presence, absence, and the performative act of inhabiting a site. Through deceptively simple gestures, Lai transforms environments into poetic provocations—highlighting how the slightest shift in a space or routine can alter perception, feeling, or meaning. ...
