SAUNA LAB series

SAUNA LAB: Becoming Human-Fish

Inhwa Yeom’s SAUNA LAB: Becoming Human-Fish (2025) is a multi-channel video installation linking Hong Kong’s Lo Ting merfolk folklore, microplastics, and bodily adaptation.

SAUNA LAB: Flowers of Hot Spring

Inhwa Yeom’s SAUNA LAB: Flowers of Hot Spring (2024) is a multi-channel video installation connecting Hualien’s hot-spring cultures, ageing, collective care, and post-extractive climate futures.

Installation view from Inhwa Yeom’s SAUNA LAB, a multi-channel media environment combining climate research, laboratory imagery, and Asian hot-spring culture

Inhwa Yeom’s SAUNA LAB series (2024–25) imagines a climate-crisis research institute joining hot-spring culture, community, science, and alternative knowledge.