O-1 Visas
A place can be how it feels on your skin and in your lungs and up your nose, and Taiwan does not feel anything like Chicago. Recently at M House, a liquor store in Bridgeport whose upstairs houses an apartment-style event space, Taiwanese curator Tzu Ying (Cara) Cheng organized an 11-artist exhibit on this theme, isolating humidity as a key aspect of that difference. Humidity Studies included Sage Lin’s aggressively twee ceramics, Elisa Ho’s embroidered consideration of the sky as trapped by windows, Jay Wei’s terrifyingly implicatory video game of algorithmic violence, and Winnie Weiyan Szu’s breathy, weathered paintings. Being far away can be instructive: sometimes you have to leave home in order to contemplate it anew.
—Lori Waxman 5/8/26 3:24 PM