A Messenger - Passerby in Our Battlefields

Ifva partners with Goethe-Institut Hongkong to present solo exhibitions for Media Art Category local awardees. This year the two parties will present the solo media arts exhibition “A Messenger – Passerby in Our Battlefields” of Lo Lai-lai Natalie, the Gold Awardee of the 26th ifva Media Art Category, which explores the conflicts and wrestling among humans and nature through a collection of new media artworks.

The lonesome spring is approaching. We yearn to sing freely and migrate like birds, but the price of staying alive remains a mystery. Farmers, like their crops, used to live with the land. Some of them, however, are uprooted and rely on their intuition to flow steadily in the sky, just to prevent themselves from falling back onto the soil.

It is an unsettling field in and out. Could nature articulate the true self by provoking our emotions?

LO LAI-LAI NATALIE

Lo Lai-lai Natalie

Lo Lai-lai Natalie received Master of Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a learner at the collective organic farm Sangwoodgoon (Hong Kong) where she also explores, as an artist and a Hongkonger, the lifestyle of ‘Half-Farming, Half-X’, a practice that seeks alternatives and autonomy. Her works are collected by the Sigg Collection and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (US). Her works were presented in San Francisco, Paris, Dresden, Johannesburg and more.