“Self-made: Invisible Architectures”
Yanti Peng
12 Sept → 19 Oct 2026
Window

Installation view of the West Space window showing a wooden box containing a mixed media sculptural work.
Yanti Peng, 'Self-made: Invisible Architectures,' 2026. Installation view, West Space Window. Photography by Janelle Low.
The certainties have shifted
Words deleted incompleted
— Face the Waves, Crustation

Self-made: Invisible Architectures is a new site-specific work presented in the West Space Window by Yanti Peng 彭妍缇.

Here, the Window is likened to our screens: both mediate inside and out, a static frame through which variables move, and meaning is projected. We gaze and assign emotion, constructing narratives from the surface. While the social, political and economic architectures shift invisibly and we adapt. Through our devices, we occupy an overlapping terrain, both public and private, intimate and performative. Each swipe or post becomes a negotiation between self-presentation and surveillance. The opposite of invisibility is no longer being seen.

Self-made: Invisible Architectures seeks to locate the paradox of our public and private lives, where exposure becomes a form of hiding, and visibility becomes a kind of erasure through conformity.

Self-made: Invisible Architectures was created with support from collaborators Henry Black as the structural engineer and a special thank you to Jesse Vega. This project is supported by NSW Government through CreateNSW. In 2026, the West Space Window is supported by the City of Yarra through their Annual Grants Program.

Opening Celebration

Saturday 12 September, 4 → 6pm

Join us for refreshments on our balcony to celebrate Self-made: Invisible Architectures and meet Yanti Peng while she visits Melbourne for this presentation.

Install view of the West Space window showing a photographic work of a figure in the top window and a mixed media sculptural work in the bottom window.
Close-up of Yanti Pengs 'Self-made: Invisible Architecture' which features neon green and pink swirly sculptural elements and a cracked eggshell with a figure painted on top.
Close-up of a contorted figure laser-cut out of wooden sheets and transformed into two seperate layers. One in front of the other with an iPod placed in the centre of the figure showing a video.
Close-up of a wooden sculpture resembling a music note leaning up against two purple poles.
Close-up of Yanti Pengs 'Self-made: Invisible Architectures' featuring a laser-cut contorted figure out of wood sheets, an ipod with a video playing in the centre, a curled up translucent figurine sitting near the bottom of the frame and a row of bright pink painted wooden swirls at the top.
Close-up of an intricately laser-cut wood piece design painted in a bright green sitting in the corner of a larger sheet of wood.
A figure with long blonde hair and wearing a red shirt viewing Yanti Pengs 'Self-made: Invisible Architectures' with their hands behind their back.
Exterior view of West Space with Yanti Pengs 'Self-made: Invisible Architectures' showing in the window.

Yanti Peng 彭妍缇 is a Hainan-born Dharug (Sydney) based artist working across sculpture, film, photography, and 3D computer tools. She seeks to decode functions of power within the labyrinth of truth and consciousness, often through humour, absurdism and magical realism. She likens her interconnected practice to the body’s fascial system.

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