Kiang Malingue is pleased to participate in the first edition of Pavilion Taipei by presenting a selection of recent paintings and sculptures by Chou Yu-Cheng and Lai Chih-Sheng.

Chou Yu-Cheng’s new “borrnnn” paintings continue to explore various organic forms of life. The exceptionally plump fruits, as signifiers of vitality and incalculable potentials, are depicted in the artist’s signature style, meticulously tracing the subtle changes of light in a quiet, meditative interior environment. Gently laying bare the stone or pulp of a fruit, the “borrnnn” series also transforms the dialectic of front and back as seen in previous gradient paintings into an ever-deepening exploration of space.

Lai Chih-Sheng’s new sculpture A Page (2026) is part of a series of marble pieces that was first shown in 2017. Showing the artist’s rarely shown interest in stone carving, it differs from the earlier loose leaf readymade No Ifs (2013) that ponders the absence of inscribed possibilities, and is instead an exquisite loose leaf page created by slowly polishing a large block of marble, playing with the extreme contrast between a soft form and a solid material. Lai also presents Paint Can_Mars Yellow (2026), which is also the latest piece from a decade-long series. Lai transforms the can with the paint that it contains in a slow, meditative process, fully mapping the topological quality of a hand-held object, pointing at—as Chou also does—new ways through which one can reconsider dichotomies such as externality and interiority.