“In English literary history, ‘Shangri-La’ carries the connotations of a paradise and utopia, symbolizing a mysterious kingdom. For local artist Virginia Lo, blending personal life experiences with imagination can also create a mysterious and fantastical world.”
Virginia is passionate about things with historical significance. In this personal exhibition, she painted virtual natural ecological scenes from the Hong Kong Museum of History, adding many whimsical ideas to the scenery, allowing the audience to embark on a historical journey and explore mysterious and harmonious landscapes.
The artist repeatedly scrapes off and adds pigments on the canvas with a palette knife and brush, creating a unique blend of colors and light and dark contrasts. The layering of pigments falls between clarity and blur, resulting in dim and mysterious works full of wonder, leading viewers to open the door to imagination and experience unexpected delights.
In her work, Virginia combines the scenario of her former students having physical education classes in the park with virtual natural landscapes, creating a captivating image that intertwines the past and present, reality and fantasy.
In addition, she also incorporated into the scene the rabbit person from the urban legends in the United States who wields an axe to chop people, with the setting being the wilderness park near her home. This created a fantastical world of anthropomorphic animals, sparking more curiosity among the audience, pondering whether this rabbit is real or fake.
This exhibition showcases the interchange and intertwining of reality and fiction. Feel free to visit the exhibition and wander through the fantasy world created by the artists.
“Shangri-La” exhibition by Lou Man Kin
Date: From now until October 1 (Closed on Mondays)
Time: 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Location: Touch Gallery, Room 202, 3/F, 10 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong
Image source and learn more: Touch Gallery
