The Transformation Gallery is delighted to welcome London and Taiwan-based multidisciplinary artist HsinYing Lin for a two-week residency exploring the theme of Trapped.

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Working across performance, photography, moving image, and painting, Lin's practice examines the body as a site of expression, vulnerability, and cultural meaning. Her work frequently draws upon personal experience, historical symbolism, language, and ritual to explore how identities are formed, constrained, and transformed within contemporary society. Through imaginative and thought-provoking visual narratives, she investigates the relationship between the individual body and the systems that shape it.

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During her residency, Lin will develop a new body of work centred on the idea of being simultaneously sustained and confined by the very things we desire. The residency takes as its starting point a simple but profound contradiction: how can hope become a form of imprisonment? Through performative actions, drawings, moving image, and installation, Lin explores the tension between aspiration and limitation, freedom and containment.

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A key work in development involves a transparent cube structure containing a source of light. From within this confined space, the artist repeatedly writes the word "light" onto its transparent surfaces until they gradually become opaque, obscuring both the light and the possibility of escape. The work transforms an act of hope into an act of enclosure, raising questions about persistence, belief, and self-imposed limitations.

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Alongside this project, the residency will bring together ongoing investigations into the body's relationship with technology, visibility, language, and social structures. Through works that range from performative calligraphy and body-based image-making to examinations of digital scanning and bodily transformation, Lin considers how contemporary life continually redefines the boundaries between the physical self and the systems that surround it.

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Throughout the residency, The Transformation Gallery will function as a site of research, experimentation, and artistic development, offering visitors the opportunity to encounter works in progress and gain insight into the artist's evolving process.