<link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" id="bootstrap-css"> <script src="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <!------ Include the above in your HEAD tag ----------> <h1 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Yi Hsuan Lai: A Lens-based Artist</strong></h1> <p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6125db_aae6268a0f4e445ba192a763c339e201~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1225,h_815,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/6125db_aae6268a0f4e445ba192a763c339e201~mv2.jpg" width="611" height="406" alt="" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p> <p></p> <p>Yi Hsuan Lai is a Taiwanese visual artist living in New York who creates art combining elements of photography and sculpture. Many works involve found objects next to handmade sculptures in their assemblages, where materials, through this interaction, become the respective objects accordingly. Being an <a href="https://www.yihsuanlai.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>NYC visual artist</strong></a>, Yi Hsuan Lai points at solving problems bound with questions of identity, migration, and adaptation—around which one can weave experiences included in her biography—and uses her experience as an immigrant to inform her work. In this sense, every piece describes a story, urging human beings to realize the extra complexities and multiplicity of her art.</p> <p></p> <p>That is what her photographic work from New York, living now as a Taiwanese photographer, shows: innovative uses of materials in the telling of meaningful stories. Her work bears witness to that dress of journey undertaken by herself when she immigrated to New York as a Taiwanese visual artist, speaking from unique vantage points within the vibrant art scene of New York City. These works drive dialogue between past and present, between the ordinary and the extraordinary.</p>