Jeanne Lai
Exhibition Territorium
19-09-2026 -30-11-2026
Jeanne Lai – Unwalked Walk and Stingfield
Jeanne Lai focuses on the complex relationship between humans and animals. Animals attract her more strongly than people, yet it is precisely in them that she recognises something human. In her work, dependence and dominance exist close together, visible in the way animals appear alongside one another and relate to each other.
In Unwalked Walk staan drie honden dicht bij elkaar.
Their bodies almost form a single whole, while their gazes and postures differ. Red lines run alongside the animals and connect them. The lines provide direction, but also introduce a sense of control.
The dogs seem both independent and bound to one another. Lai uses them to examine relationships in which freedom and dependence coexist, blurring the boundary between the one who determines and the one who follows.
Her paintings leave room for the question of where one individual ends and another begins. This tension exists not only between human and animal, but also within human relationships. Lai’s animals thus become carriers of recognisable, sometimes uncomfortable dynamics.
In Stingfield krijgt die spanning een andere vorm. Ook daar spelen nabijheid, begrenzing en de verhouding tussen lichaam en omgeving een rol. Het werk roept een wereld op waarin ruimte niet zomaar beschikbaar is. Lai laat die tegenstrijdigheden in het beeld bestaan.
Biography
Jeanne Lai | Taipei, 2001
Jeanne Lai is a Taiwanese artist living and working in the Netherlands. Her work explores the complex, paradoxical relationships between humans, animals and their environments. She graduated from the Fine Arts department in Taiwan in 2023 and completed her Master of Painting at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen in 2026.
Fascinated by the contrast between resourceful stray dogs in Taiwan and regulated leashed dogs in the Netherlands, Lai investigates the boundary between wildness and socialisation. She translates this dynamic into installations and paintings using wood, metal and reflective surfaces. By playing with perception, she blurs the boundaries between viewer and artwork, nature and artificiality, and human and animal.
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EDUCATION
2026
Graduated from Frank Mohr Institute, Painting
2023
Graduated from Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of Art
EXHIBITIONS
2026
- Emerging Asian Talents (GROUP)
Namuso Gallery, Den Haag
- Fountain Spit (SOLO)
Tiniminiroom, Dordrecht
2024
- Whatz Art Fair, Taipei
- They Live in the Room I Live, Fog Space (SOLO)
Taipei
PUBLICATIONS
2025
- PhotoBook, What wasn’t meant to stay
2024
- PhotoBook, They Live in the Room I Live