2023

Acrylic paint, paper, plastic
Set of 2, 8 x 8 x 8 cm each

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In 2014, Lai creates the first P aint Can: completely coated in white, the paint can is literally turned inside-out by the artist. Transforming the container with the paint that it contains in a meditative process (it takes the artist more than six month to finish the piece), it ponders the architectural quality of a hand-held object, and points at new ways through which one can reconsider dichotomies such as externality—interiority. After creating new series of Paint Cans in 2019, Lai revisits in It’s a quiet thing the practice of emptying out a space, treating it as both a metaphor— emptying a space by filling it—and a way to address the circular structures visible throughout the Sik On building.

2023.05.25-07.08 “It's a quiet thing", Kiang Malingue, 10 Sik On Street, Hong Kong