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Yaya Lo graduated from the Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts in Hong Kong Baptist University in 2021. She specialized primarily in oil painting and drawing, yet with a keen interest in analogue photography, sculpture and printmaking.
About the artist
She considers herself as a direct observer and seeker from the surrounding space, who is obsessed with finding implicated correlations between the boundaries of light and shadow, artificial and natural, reality and fantasy. Most of her paintings record a journey of specific scenarios encountered, which sometimes consist of revelations that could be inscrutable. After a meld of consistent observation and minded insight, an aesthetic version was then portrayed. She particularly enjoys magnifying the ephemeral moments that could be easily overlooked and turn them extraordinary, thus her approach of painting them could be understood as a response to the energy she has observed the motifs emitted and the message received.
On the other hand, her inspirations also sourced from novels, music albums, film photos, as well as her own memory and imagination, which gives the kind of space to allow something veiled to evolve.
A balance could be seen through her painting approach between figuration and abstraction, which the motif is clearly derived from real object sources that retains strong
references to the real world, yet does not represent an accurate depiction of visual reality. Instead, she enhances the communication between lines, colors, shapes, forms and various marks in order to form a rhythmic content and new visual language to communicate with the viewers.
