In this episode with Lo Lai Lai Natalie we 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.

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 Media Arts Category of the 26rd ifva Award, Hong Kong in 2021.

She presented her solo exhibition in PTT Space Taipei (You’s Better Turn Down the Volume,

2021-2022), WMA Space Hong Kong (The Days Before the Silent Spring, 2020-2021), Tomorrow Maybe, Hong Kong (Give no words but mum, 2020), bonacon Gallery in Guangzhou, China (Down into the Abyss, 2018) , Floating Projects in Hong Kong ( Slow-So TV - Ann Eilathan’s Gaze, 2016) and the Observation Society in Guangzhou, China (Souvenir and Gift, 2014) . 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.

Lo Lai Lai Natalie

• Instagram @sqlai


• Website www.lolailai.com

Other references:

• Choi Yuen Tsuen Village


• Human Library

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