Lau Sze Man 劉詩敏

Lau Sze Man (b.1995, Hong Kong) is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Taipei, whose major artistic practices are painting, collage and video. Lau Sze Man specialises in capturing images and words through intuition and transforming the encountered imageries into abstract forms in artworks. Lau believes that painting can retain complex feelings that can rarely be described verbally. To her, painting is a methodological recording of some of her rawest emotions at the moment, like writing a diary, sometimes transfixed in the moment-to-moment spontaneous process. However, she also regards time, whether a day or month, as an essential guide to tell whether certain elements need to be subtracted in the canvas. The subtraction process not only allows her to deduce her complicated feelings but also blurs any concrete meaning or messages. As a result, what would remain are painterly abstractions that convey sensibility to the viewers.

Lau Sze Man’s latest series and exhibitions include “Stay Away from Watercourses”, “Ways of Running and Embracing”, and “Stones that Got Thrown in Didn’t Hit the Ground”.