Kah Yan Chai

Kah Yan Chai is a textile-based artist whose practice explores how we experience the world through sensing, being seen, and perceiving.

Working with hand embroidery, she constructs layered surfaces that evoke the body, the gaze, and the shifting nature of perception. Her works do not seek to define fixed meanings, but instead hold space for multiple ways of understanding.

Her recent body of work unfolds as a quiet progression—from physical sensation, to awareness of being seen, to the realisation that perception is never singular. Through this, she reflects on how identity and understanding are continuously shaped, rather than given.