Sticking out like a sore thumb in a crowd is something Europeans have to get used to, she says. 'People here look at me, examine my dress, my hair and everything on me.

'Sometimes when I'm in places where tourists are rare, people wonder what I'm doing there. And when I'm walking on the street with the two-year-old niece of my Chinese fiance, people become so curious,' Lee says.

This has become an inspiration for Lee, and is captured in one of her three installations in the form of window blinds. The work explores how our privacy is being impinged upon. Another installation draws on her observations of the city's architecture, which appears much 'taller and slimmer' than what she has seen before, she says.

Set up in a dimly lit room are three 2.5-metre-tall blinds resembling buildings with thousands of glittering windows. Lee says the series encourages viewers to look at buildings in new ways.

'I hope to stimulate people to reflect on their surroundings, make them aware of what they have grown accustomed to and see every day in a new light,' she says.

That's why window blinds are used as a way of presentation in all these works. 'Blinds are mundane, everyday objects that people take for granted,' the artist says.

For Lee, the functionality of window blinds also encourages participation from the viewers.

'The blinds enable me to show different images on both sides,' she says. 'In this way, the viewer can walk around my pieces, view them from one side, then open and close the blinds to discover the reverse sides of them.

'Just like we can't arrive at a deeper understanding of an issue until we have examined it from different perspectives, to get a full view of my works one has to look at them from many angles.'

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