Lai Chih-Sheng

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. ...