Len!Scape

By Yimei Emair Zhu

Opening Reception

April 4th, 6:00pm-8:00pm
Free with RSVP

About the Exhibit:
This series continues the “low vision” narrative, employing 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.

About the Artist:

Yimei(Emair) Zhu is an interdisciplinary artist with a passion for Senses, Posthumanism, and Perspective Transformation. She holds an MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and obtained her BFA in Experimental Art from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China. 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. It’s about forging new ways of sensing, feeling, and interacting with our world by integrating technology with our corporeal existence.

Website: www.emair.studio  | Email: emairzhu@gmail.com  | Ig: @emair.studio

This project is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.

The International Museum of Surgical Science acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.