Location: Logan Center Gallery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Client: University of Chicago

Completed: September 2019

Size: 1,000 Square Feet

Photo Credit: Robert Chase Heishman

The following description of the project is found on UCHICAGOArt’s website:

“The artist’s first solo exhibition in Chicago, A Hard White Body, a Porous Slip presents a fragile sculptural landscape composed of porcelain fragments submerged in liquid porcelain slip. Rotting plant material and other debris soak in the shallow pool, coloring the white liquid and dirtying the ceramic surfaces. Alongside archival documents, organic material, and finely crafted objects, the immersive installation also includes a video projected above the pool. Lin’s installation extends the artist’s ongoing exploration of material and non-human histories alongside the biographies of three historical figures: novelist James Baldwin, botanist and first woman to circumnavigate the globe Jeanne Baret, and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian.”

For this installation, Space Haus designed and constructed the plywood platform and pool.