Feature (1) LO Lai-lai Natalie’s concrete living [excerpts]
專題特寫一：勞麗麗的實體幹活 [節錄]
Lo Lai Lai Natalie was born in Hong Kong. She received her Bachelor of Art (Fine Arts) and Master of Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lai-lai is a former travel journalist. She finds her interests in food, farming, fermentation, surveillance, and meditation. She has a farming practice, using photography, video and installation as a means to interact with nature. Her artworks are collected by the Sigg Collection and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
Lai-lai’s solo exhibitions include Blue Throat: A Profound Disruption (JW Projects, Singapore,2023), A Messenger -- Passerby in Our Battlefields (Goethe Insitut Hongkong, 2023), You’d Better Turn Down the Volume (PTT Space Taipei, 2021-2022), The Days Before The Silent Spring (WMA Space Hong Kong, 2020-2021), Give no words but Mum (Tomorrow Maybe, 2020), Down into the Abyss (bonacon Gallery, 2018), and more.
She received the WMA Commission Grant on the theme of Opportunity in Hong Kong and she was the Gold Award recipient of the Media Art Category of the 26th ifva Award, Hong Kong in 2021. Her artworks were presented in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin, London, Naha, Dresden, Basel, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta, Beijing, Shanghai and Taiwan.
https://www.lolailai.com/ (personal website)
Keyword: macro view of the personal | video shorts | time lapse video | small farming exercises | observing plant growth | home planting | distance between nature and human