Spencer Lai at Mackintosh Lane

Spencer Lai

May 3 - May 4, 2025

IMPRESSIONS

Mackintosh Lane

London

A system of compulsions and repetitions—personal geometries shaped by memory, yearning, and the slow accumulation of days. Notations are at once speculative and precise. Some things barely exist, on the frontier of realisation.

Emotional material drawn from the atmos of vanished days which form impressions. Modes of being informed by relation to another. What is it to become something, to bear witness to the structure of the self in the throes of a transient drift. Behaviour which modulates in verdant light. A tender winter dawn rises over the meadow, illuminating the young grass heavy with dew-sodden mites, bowing towards the earth.

It has been said that events of one’s life are destined to be endlessly reenacted in an attempt to resolve primal contradictions that nevertheless remain embedded in the unconscious. Repetition of the wish-fulfillment brings a host of material forward — yearnings and demands shaped across the years and formulated by the spirit. It’s not something that one readily forgets — nor is one entirely able to. These urges are so deeply saturated within each of us.

Installation View
Installation View
Harmony Device III (Time/Event), Foam core, acrylic paint, glazed paper, stainless steel, beads, plastic, screws, 50 x 40 x 5 cm, 2025
Harmony Device III (Time/Event), Foam core, acrylic paint, glazed paper, stainless steel, beads, plastic, screws, 50 x 40 x 5 cm, 2025
Installation View
Installation View
Installation View
Installation View
Memory Fragment: Environment II, Synthetic felt, finnboard, acrylic, varnish, 2 wooden panels, 71.5 x 41 x 3 cm, 2025
Memory Fragment: Environment II, Synthetic felt, finnboard, acrylic, varnish, 2 wooden panels, 71.5 x 41 x 3 cm, 2025
Articulation of Quiet Voice Formed for Domicile, Pencil on paper, matboard, aluminium frame, 40 x 30 x 3 cm, 2025
Articulation of Quiet Voice Formed for Domicile, Pencil on paper, matboard, aluminium frame, 40 x 30 x 3 cm, 2025
Installation View
Installation View
Memory Fragment: Environment I (Variation), Synthetic felt, finnboard, acrylic, 4 wooden panels, 180 x 40 x 3 cm, 2024-25
Memory Fragment: Environment I (Variation), Synthetic felt, finnboard, acrylic, 4 wooden panels, 180 x 40 x 3 cm, 2024-25