VITRINE EXHIBITION SERIES
JUN 26 – JUL 26, 2025
Yimei Emair Zhu
Graffiti & Observation
Graffiti & Observation features recent work by artist Yimei Emair Zhu. The exhibition includes the multimedia installations and performances Len!scape and Len?scape that examine hidden relationships among the visible, the viewable, and the observed. Both projects employ discarded lenses as a medium to explore “low vision” and expose the fragility of human perception.
“…Art is a powerful means to tackle complex challenges, creating connections across various disciplines…and forging new ways of sensing, feeling, and interacting with our world by integrating technology with our corporeal existence…” — Yimei Emair Zhu
Yimei Emair Zhu is an interdisciplinary artist with a passion for Senses, Posthumanism, and Perspective Transformation. Her work explores deficiencies and imperfections from an unconventional perspective. She invites viewers to see limits not as limitations but as unique modes of experiencing the world. Yimei's work has been exhibited at Hua Art Museum in Shenzhen, Taoxichuan Museum of Art, CSI Project Space, Epiphany Center in Chicago, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Design Museum of Chicago, Yeiser Art Center, International Museum of Surgical Science and many others around the world.
Len!scape
2025, installation
Len?scape
2025, Performance in collaboration with Reid Arowood
Artist’s Statement
Through my work, I challenge stereotypes and embrace unconventional perspectives on deficiencies and imperfections. My art addresses the experiences of the disabled community, delving into sensory systems beyond human capabilities. I seek to transcend limitations and build a community network intertwining disability, art, and technology. By merging existing products with emerging technologies, I aim to open new possibilities for sensory experiences.
About Len!scape & Len?Scape
Len!scape employs discarded lenses as a medium to question the hidden relationships among the visible, the viewable, and the observed. It challenges established modes of perception—structures and reconstructions, light and shadow, order and chaos—endeavoring to tear apart the confines of conventional visual narratives. In doing so, it exposes the fragility of human visual physiology and the loss and distortion of information inherent in our perceptual processes. Just as multi-layered, refined glasses reveal a clearer view of the world, every discarded optical fragment in the exhibition activates a complex mechanism of symbolic transformation the moment it meets your gaze. Len?Scape extends the spirit of Len!Scape by fostering collaboration with other artists, inviting audiences to re-examine their modes of viewing, participate actively, and engage in secondary creation.