Tzu Yen Tai

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2026

• Mirror

2025

• Untitle
  
• Makeover of the Drawing Studio
• Side View — Giant Version
  
• Side View

2024

• Self-portrait of a Canvas
  
• Hold on
  
• Hanging Wire and the Rectangle
  
• Hanging Wire and a Girl
  
• Painting within a painting

2023

• Artwork

2022

• Brushstrokes

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.

Side View




Traditional painting often strives for an effect of illusion, which leads to the canvas's materiality being overlooked or even regarded as a distracting element to be eliminated — the sides of the canvas are no exception.

By creating a canvas with extended thickness (sides), I altered the conventional proportion between the front and side surfaces. Combined with the use of stamps, staples, and primer, this work emphasizes how the seemingly ordinary dimensions of the canvas conceal an unusually elongated inner frame.
I regard this work as a form of Specific Objects, a concept referring to "objects that are neither painting nor sculpture." By reinforcing its materiality, the work attempts to address core questions about painting, challenging traditional boundaries between flatness and materiality.