Exhibition View

Dennis Lin’s Waiting. Still. brings together a body of work shaped by loss, care, and ritual. The works are formed from materials marked by personal and cultural rupture. Charcoal and fire-scarred stone recovered from a house fire are preserved alongside paper salvaged from his family’s paper factory in Taiwan, a lineage now nearing its end. Incense and objects of prayer appear throughout the exhibition, carrying scent, impermanence, and traces of devotional practice. Each material holds memory, bearing the weight of people, events, and traditions that fade over time.

At a broader scale, the work reflects an ongoing meditation on Taiwanese identity and the vulnerability of culture under geopolitical pressure. Gathering and tending to materials mirrors a desire to preserve histories and practices that feel increasingly precarious. In preserving fragile traces of heritage, Lin cultivates a connection to spirituality and loss, offering moments of reflection that bridge personal, cultural, and collective histories. In an era of uncertainty, these objects serve as repositories of heritage and quiet acts of resistance, allowing what is fragile and ephemeral to endure through care, touch, and time.

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Paper, stone
1500 dia x 500 d
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Natural stone, bronze, steel
930 h x 270 w x 270 d
780 h x 270 w x 270 d
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Charcoal, glass, aluminum
500 h x 500 w x 105 d
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Charcoal, glass, aluminum
1000 h x 1000 w 105 d
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Charcoal, glass, aluminum
1500 h x 800 w x 105 d
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Wooden fish, bronze
850 h x 230 w x 230 d
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Singing bowl, fir, bronze
900 h x 230 w x 330 d
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Natural stone, bronze, fir
1000 h x 400 w x 360 d
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Incense, bronze
2500 h x 1200 w x 305 d
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Bronze, teacups
1600 h x 600 d
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Bronze, moon blocks
1000 h x 400 w x 360 d
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Natural stone, steel, Chinese silk, rope, fir 
2900 h x 305 w x 1500 d
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Charcoal, bronze, found objects, stone, incense, Chinese silk