Collection: LAM Hiu-man, Anna ｜ 林曉雯

Shuuuuuuu, where are you from? Fear not, for we all, are the food for worms. The sun burns us and we are evaporated by its fiery warmth. Our shadows burst into Aurora’s tango and Luna’s face. Guided by solar winds, they wander free, Transformed into stones in lands unknown, you see the fates. We do not belong to where we belong. Before the sun gives it a go, please enjoy the last dance against the dying of the light.

Anna LAM Hiu-man is a visual artist who specialises in analogue photography, printmaking and painting. Her images compress the natural landscape and man-made space into a flat time capsule by the lens and black and white film. Inspired by the meticulous and volatile natural colours and the black and white man-made colour palettes, she creates elusive and absurd prints and paintings. Lam believes that there will no longer be pure nature in the world but manufactured. Starting from the perspective of a stranger, she leads the viewer to be perplexed by the huge and fleeting geographical scenery through the narrow prints ridiculously, meanwhile to think that they have already become a part of the landscape unwittingly, and even the “God”. 

Previously, her works were shown in group exhibitions including “8x12”(FLOOR_, Seoul, 2021) and “(original)”(WURE AREA, Hong Kong, 2021).

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安靜———您從哪裏來的？不要緊，我們都是蛆蟲的食物。被太陽蒸發掉後，影子如極光探戈爆發於月滿下，跟隨太陽風游離，最終成為他鄉的石頭。 我們本無所屬。在太陽休止前，請享受跳這一支無。

林曉雯畢業於香港浸會大學視覺藝術院，主要以攝影、版畫和繪畫進行創作。她的影像在鏡頭與黑白底片下將自然風景和人造空間壓縮成平面時間囊，也經常受細緻而幻變的自然顏色及黑白分明的人造色塊所啟發，並以版畫和繪畫呈現捉摸不定而荒謬的畫面。曉雯相信世界不會再存在純粹的自然，並嘗試以異鄉人的角度出發，帶領觀者透過步進狹小的畫面，被巨大又一瞬即逝的地理風景困惑，從而思考自身經已不知不覺地成為景觀的一部分，甚至是這些地景的「神」。 

參與展覽包括「8x12」(FLOOR_，首爾，2021)及「（原味）」(WURE AREA，香港，2021)。