Lyle Lin

Lyle Lin, a Chinese-born artist with a primary focus on photography and mixed media, currently resides and works in London. 

Her artistic practice revolves around the transformation of mundane elements extracted from the human body's surface, such as strands of hair, skin tissue, and nail structures, into primary symbols that inform her creative output. Through the utilization of narrative and sculptural approaches, she engages with photography as a means to construct her art practice. Additionally, her practice prompts critical inquiry into the manner in which we, as individuals, employ our distinct and emblematic languages to respond to latent moments of value within our lives.

The motif of "hair," serving as one among various symbolic forms, assumes an intriguingly contradictory presence. Functioning as a connective conduit, hair's physical manifestation engenders a sense of belonging while concurrently establishing imagery that forges relationships with an individual's identity, imprints, and memories. 

Lin’s practice delves into the overlooked minutiae of everyday life, compelling viewers to confront the residual traces of selfhood imprinted within images and objects, and to consider their entanglement with human existence, memory, and temporal progression. Moreover, Lin's work evokes an awareness of how the fragile nature of the physical body intertwines with one's perception of self, as every experience becomes indelibly inscribed within the strands of DNA. In her photographic installations, Lin captures light in a minimalist and ethereal manipulation and configures a distinctive spatial strategy beyond her works, inviting an exploration of the relationship between her unique methodology of "self-collection" as a form of existence and the notion of "body waste."