Artist-farmer Lo Lai Lai Natalie on Human Library, Sangwoodgoon, surveillance, and living slowly.
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Artist-farmer Lo Lai Lai Natalie (photo by South Ho)
Ep.26 | In this episode Lo Lai Lai Natalie spoke about her early life as a travel writer and how this has informed and influenced her current career as a farmer and artist. We discussed Natalie’s interests in Sangwoodgoon, meditation, surveillance, fermentation and lastly how her Hyperthyroidism affected her outlook on life and work.
Cold Fire, Video, 2019-2020, Natalie Lo Lai Lai
The Fire in the Glacier, Lo Lai Lai Natalie, 2022
Lo Lai Lai Natalie is based 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 is interested in the development and the construction of nature, and as a learner at the collective organic farm Sangwoodgoon (Hong Kong) , where she seeks alternatives and autonomy as an artist and a Hong-Konger. Lai Lai finds her interests in food, farming, fermentation, surveillance, and meditation. She writes, “The ecological system is a chain of desires, tied to the individual’s sensibilities wandering about in the depth of mysterious valleys”
Lai Lai 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 (US).
She received the Award for Young Artist, Visual Arts Category, the 16th Arts Development Awards, Hong Kong in 2022. She was the Gold Award recipient of the Media Arts Category of the 26rd ifva Award, Hong Kong in 2021.
Lai Lai received the WMA Commission Grant on the theme of Opportunity in Hong Kong and her works were presented in San Francisco (US), Paris (France), Berlin (Germany), Dresden (Germany), Basel (Switzerland) Johannesburg (South Africa), Yogyakarta (Indonesia), Beijing (China) and Shanghai (China) and Taiwan.
Instagram @sqlai
Website www.lolailai.com
Lo Lai Lai Natalie group shows:
The Wild and The Tame, 11 Jul - 3 Sep, Denny Dimin Gallery Hong Kong
The World Is Your Oyster, curated by Juliana Chan, 9 August - 21 September, Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong.
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