Westbund 2025
Angela Lyn
Angela Lyn
13.-16.11.2025
meet me in the woods - Angela Lyn
For the Shanghai West Bund Art Fair 2025, Lechbinska Gallery presents an installation titled meet me in the woods by Angela Lyn. In this work, Lyn explores silks a new extension of her painting practice. What once existed as two-dimensional canvases are reimagined as transparent layers of silk, suspended from the ceiling to form three-dimensional compositions that shift and breathe with the slightest movement of air. The resulting instability of the image evokes a sense of dreamlike temporality.
Visitors are invited to enter Lyn’s world and experience its quiet presence. This immersive installation marks the artist’s continued investigation into material and perception, approaching silk with the same lucidity, precision, and depth of inquiry that define her painting.
The presentation in Shanghai represents a significant return to China
for Lyn, coinciding with a major exhibition on Gulangyu Island in Xiamen — the home of her ancestral roots.
Artist's statement
As the silk installations are a reshaping of images I have painted over several decades, forming different narratives that carry new layers of spatial, physical and metaphoric meaning, offering various perspectives for the viewer. Where in a painting, the length of a branch or the thickness of a cedar needle is the language, the transparency and fluidity inherent in silk become the poetic means of expression.
For my upcoming projects in China, I have created a series of installation works comprising 300 meters of printed silk, transformed into semi-transparent suspended images and wall works. These works connect to a nomadic approach to presentation. The featherweight silks can be bundled and carried easily from one place to another. <...> I used three types of silk to augment the different transparencies, which, in some cases, when layered directly one over the other, create a shimmering moiré of colours, adding a further ghost-like ambiguity to the image. As the silk moves, it redefines the image. In the midst of the floating forest, a red monkey occupies the fragile habitat. Giant tree hands dangle from above, inviting the visitor to enter. Silk bundles occupy the floor space, creating a visual link to the suspended silks and an entire narrative within the space.
The quintessence of the installation is one of metamorphosis and transformation: a sense of poetic impermanence where the viewer can wander amidst the images and suddenly be brushed by the trees as if they were coming to life.
For the Shanghai West Bund Art Fair 2025, Lechbinska Gallery presents an installation titled meet me in the woods by Angela Lyn. In this work, Lyn explores silks a new extension of her painting practice. What once existed as two-dimensional canvases are reimagined as transparent layers of silk, suspended from the ceiling to form three-dimensional compositions that shift and breathe with the slightest movement of air. The resulting instability of the image evokes a sense of dreamlike temporality.
Visitors are invited to enter Lyn’s world and experience its quiet presence. This immersive installation marks the artist’s continued investigation into material and perception, approaching silk with the same lucidity, precision, and depth of inquiry that define her painting.
The presentation in Shanghai represents a significant return to China
for Lyn, coinciding with a major exhibition on Gulangyu Island in Xiamen — the home of her ancestral roots.
Artist's statement
As the silk installations are a reshaping of images I have painted over several decades, forming different narratives that carry new layers of spatial, physical and metaphoric meaning, offering various perspectives for the viewer. Where in a painting, the length of a branch or the thickness of a cedar needle is the language, the transparency and fluidity inherent in silk become the poetic means of expression.
For my upcoming projects in China, I have created a series of installation works comprising 300 meters of printed silk, transformed into semi-transparent suspended images and wall works. These works connect to a nomadic approach to presentation. The featherweight silks can be bundled and carried easily from one place to another. <...> I used three types of silk to augment the different transparencies, which, in some cases, when layered directly one over the other, create a shimmering moiré of colours, adding a further ghost-like ambiguity to the image. As the silk moves, it redefines the image. In the midst of the floating forest, a red monkey occupies the fragile habitat. Giant tree hands dangle from above, inviting the visitor to enter. Silk bundles occupy the floor space, creating a visual link to the suspended silks and an entire narrative within the space.
The quintessence of the installation is one of metamorphosis and transformation: a sense of poetic impermanence where the viewer can wander amidst the images and suddenly be brushed by the trees as if they were coming to life.
Westbund 2025
Angela Lyn
Angela Lyn
13.-16.11.2025
林间相遇
2025年上海西岸艺术与设计博览会Lechbinska 画廊呈现林安琪（Angela Lyn）的装置作品《林间相遇》（meet me in the woods）。在这件作品中，林安琪以丝绸为她绘画实践的全新延伸。曾经存在于二维画布上的图像，如今被重新想象为悬挂于天花板的透明丝绸层面，构成可随空气微动而轻轻摇曳的三维画面。影像的不稳定性，唤起了一种梦境般的时间感。
观者被邀请步入林安琪的世界，感受其中的静谧与呼吸。这件沉浸式装置作品体现了艺术家对材料与感知的持续探索。她以绘画中一贯的清晰、精准与深度探究，来对待丝绸这一新的媒介。
此次在上海的呈现，对林安琪而言是一次重要的回归中国之旅，并与她在厦门鼓浪屿——她祖籍之地——的大型展览同时展开（详情如下）。
艺术家陈述
这些丝绸装置重新塑造了我数十年来绘制的图像，构成了新的叙事，承载着空间、物质与隐喻意义的多重层次，为观众提供了不同的观看角度。在绘画中，树枝的长度或雪松针叶的粗细是一种语言；而在丝绸作品中，丝绸所固有的透明与流动，成为诗意的表达方式。
在我即将在中国开展的项目中，我创作了一系列由300米印花丝绸组成的装置作品，这些丝绸被转化为半透明的悬挂影像与墙面作品。它们延续了一种“游牧式”的展示方式——轻盈的丝绸可以被卷起，轻易地从一个地方带到另一个地方。我使用了三种不同的丝绸，以增强层叠时的透明度变化。在某些情况下，当不同丝绸直接叠加时，会产生一种闪烁的**彩色波纹（moiré）**效果，为影像增添一种如幽灵般的模糊感。随着丝绸的摆动，图像不断被重新定义。在这片漂浮的“森林”之中，一只红色的猴子栖息于脆弱的栖息地；巨大的树之手从上方垂下，邀请观众进入。地面上的丝绸束与悬挂的丝绸在视觉上相互呼应，共同构成空间中的完整叙事。
整个装置的精髓在于蜕变与转化——一种诗意的无常感，使观众得以在影像之间漫步，仿佛被树林轻触，恍若生命在瞬间复苏。
2025年上海西岸艺术与设计博览会Lechbinska 画廊呈现林安琪（Angela Lyn）的装置作品《林间相遇》（meet me in the woods）。在这件作品中，林安琪以丝绸为她绘画实践的全新延伸。曾经存在于二维画布上的图像，如今被重新想象为悬挂于天花板的透明丝绸层面，构成可随空气微动而轻轻摇曳的三维画面。影像的不稳定性，唤起了一种梦境般的时间感。
观者被邀请步入林安琪的世界，感受其中的静谧与呼吸。这件沉浸式装置作品体现了艺术家对材料与感知的持续探索。她以绘画中一贯的清晰、精准与深度探究，来对待丝绸这一新的媒介。
此次在上海的呈现，对林安琪而言是一次重要的回归中国之旅，并与她在厦门鼓浪屿——她祖籍之地——的大型展览同时展开（详情如下）。
艺术家陈述
这些丝绸装置重新塑造了我数十年来绘制的图像，构成了新的叙事，承载着空间、物质与隐喻意义的多重层次，为观众提供了不同的观看角度。在绘画中，树枝的长度或雪松针叶的粗细是一种语言；而在丝绸作品中，丝绸所固有的透明与流动，成为诗意的表达方式。
在我即将在中国开展的项目中，我创作了一系列由300米印花丝绸组成的装置作品，这些丝绸被转化为半透明的悬挂影像与墙面作品。它们延续了一种“游牧式”的展示方式——轻盈的丝绸可以被卷起，轻易地从一个地方带到另一个地方。我使用了三种不同的丝绸，以增强层叠时的透明度变化。在某些情况下，当不同丝绸直接叠加时，会产生一种闪烁的**彩色波纹（moiré）**效果，为影像增添一种如幽灵般的模糊感。随着丝绸的摆动，图像不断被重新定义。在这片漂浮的“森林”之中，一只红色的猴子栖息于脆弱的栖息地；巨大的树之手从上方垂下，邀请观众进入。地面上的丝绸束与悬挂的丝绸在视觉上相互呼应，共同构成空间中的完整叙事。
整个装置的精髓在于蜕变与转化——一种诗意的无常感，使观众得以在影像之间漫步，仿佛被树林轻触，恍若生命在瞬间复苏。
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