Hai-Wen Lin presents drobe, a playful look at cultural patterns, care, and what we choose to dress and protect in our world. Nov 16 at CAMOC

Spotlight Artist: Hai-Wen Lin with “drobe,” curated by Larry Lee.

This exhibition playfully riffs on the “dressing” of chairs, beds, or floors – the “chair-drobe”, “bed-drobe”, “floor-drobe” where clothes are tossed rather than properly placed in a “wardrobe” – observing the meaning of common fabric motifs and how the world should be cared for.

The show explores familiar cultural patterns in Asian culture, worked into clothing and protective coverings. Lin’s past kite-making, which she sees as “dressing” the sky, expands here into a larger question of what should adorn the world and what deserves protection.

Hai-Wen Lin is a Taiwanese American artist living somewhere beneath the sky. Their work explores constructions of the body and the attunement of oneself to the environment, often moving through metaphor, etymology, sunlight, wind, and the way time passes perfectly when you are out walking on a beautiful day. Lin holds an MDes from SAIC and is a Skowhegan alum. Some honors include the Burke Prize and Luminarts Fellowship, and she has held residencies at places such as MacDowell, Bemis, and many others.