Lai Sin Wah

An interdisciplinary artist. Lai's practice is a hybrid of happening, site-specific and participatory relational aesthetics as a research method. Her work traces the belonging in community through narrative, and investigates the ephemeral existence in time and transformation of preserved objects, in response to the living spaces where beings co-exist. The displays often combine organic elements, found objects, body/action, images, illustrations and texts in collage. By poetically looking into minute moments in life and exploring ways of thinking beyond the human and non-human divide, Lai reveals the intimate connection between one's inner perception and the external world.
Her works have been presented in institutions, art spaces, and large-scale public projects internationally, including “Secret Collection Project” (TW, 2013); “Unknown Recipes of Everyday Ingredients” (NL & HK, 2019); “Freezing the Vanishing” (HK, 2021); “Presentscape” (PT & ES, 2022); “Healing Hours” (GR & HK, 2023) and “Baa4 Baa1” (HK, 2023). Curatorial project “Shadows In My House” (HK, 2024) includes exhibition, performance, critique and publication. Solo exhibition “Anchoring the Presence” (HK, 2025) won the Creators For Tomorrow 2024 award from the Hong Kong Arts Centre. In 2021, she established the studio “Life is Art in Practice”.

Source: KIU Collective
Lai Sin Wah