Tzu Yen Tai

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 Tai’s practice explores the relationship between objects, space, and everyday life. Through installation, painting objects, and found materials, he treats artworks not as images but as spatial entities, emphasizing perception, arrangement, and the exhibition as an active, evolving process.
About
Tzu Yen Tai

Born in 2003. 
Based in Taiwan, currently studying in London.

Tzu-Yen Tai’s artistic practice is inspired by observations drawn from everyday life, domestic spaces, and the problems of the immediate environment. Rather than treating artworks as isolated entities, his work examines the relationships between exhibition space, artistic objects, and functional objects from daily life. Through this approach, spatial arrangement, embodied experience, and perception become central; the relationship between them gives rise to moments that are at once conceptual and poetic.

His practice includes installation, sculpture, painting objects, and found objects. Painting is approached not as an image, but as a material and spatial entity; found objects are treated beyond their functional roles. Within this framework, objects are understood as carriers of meaning, possessing a presence that unfolds through their placement and context. He continuously experiments, defining how these objects are perceived and experienced.

Minimalist artist Donald Judd has had a significant influence on Tai, shaping his way of seeing exhibitions, objects, and space. While minimalism was a kind of manifesto in its era, challenging painting and sculpture, Tai’s practice starts from lived experience. His practice develops through an ongoing process of conceptual reflection during making, and is ultimately transformed and presented through artistic language. Tai rationally structures the ideas of his practice while approaching its presentation in a more intuitive and sensory way. Through this continuous cycle, the work is repeatedly adjusted—through changes in lighting, placement, and the introduction of new elements.

Tai’s work is not simply completed and then displayed; rather, it often becomes fully realized through the act of exhibition itself. By carefully negotiating the relationships between different objects in space, new possibilities emerge through this ongoing process of adjustment.