Yuehan Dai’s artistic practice is grounded in process as a form of resistance: resistance to closure, to fixed meaning, and to imposed structures. Working across various disciplines—linguistic and architectural—Dai approaches process art as a direct challenge to systems obsessed with order, efficiency, and finality; not merely an aesthetic choice but a weapon against the tyranny of clarity.

Their practice questions the notion of the boundary as something distant from the center. A membrane that separates and protects from otherness. An indeterminate place inhabited by marginalized groups. The exceptional cases within general rules. The intersections of different disciplines. For Dai, the boundary functions as a permeable border—whether linguistic, architectural, cellular, or legal policies that restrict the body—serving as an (in)visible threshold that defines our sense of self and transforms the ways we interact with others. Their work plays with linguistic methods to explore the fluidity of these boundaries, employing installations, text, and interdisciplinary collaborations to immerse the audience in the dual nature of membranes—as both protective barriers and permeable layers.