Prominent Hong Kong artist Jaffa Lam holds first commercial show – it only took 22 years
- Jaffa Lam is ‘very honoured’ to be showing a number of her evocative sculptures and installations at Axel Vervoordt Gallery in Wong Chuk Hang
- Gallery director Mariko Kawashima says Lam is part of a ‘lost generation’ of Hong Kong artists, many of whom were forced to leave the art market
Jaffa Lam is one of Hong Kong’s most established artists, whose evocative sculptures and installations regularly feature in exhibitions and museum collections.
She is also widely known as an art educator, having been the academic head of the Hong Kong Art School since 2018.
So it may come as a surprise that she is now showing in a commercial gallery for the very first time.
In “Chasing an Elusive Nature” at Axel Vervoordt Gallery in Hong Kong’s southern Wong Chuk Hang neighbourhood, Lam continues her exploration of Hong Kong heritage and history through new sculptural works and site-specific installations, displayed in dialogue with some of her earlier works.
The first major installation in the gallery, Taishang LaoJun’s Furnace (2022), consists of 500 bronze, aluminium and concrete rock forms sand-casted by a master craftsman from 50 stones that Lam collected at five different locations on Hong Kong’s coastline, including Sai Wan, Lei Yue Mun and Kwai Chung.