Local artists Alley Leong (梁天兒) and Sin U Lam will be presenting their paintings at the inaugural edition of Art For All Society Macau’s (AFA) “The Collaboration Project - AFA Young Artist Development Programme” , which opens next Thursday at Casa Garden, the Macau headquarters of the Lisbon-based Orient Foundation (FO).
The upcoming exhibition is titled “Soft Bodies, Hard Structures – Alley Leong x Sin U Lam”.
According to an AFA statement yesterday, the co-creation initiative, founded by curator Chang Chan, aims to give young Macau artists a “space for mutual learning and exchange during the early stages of their careers, presenting their results locally and internationally to enhance the global visibility of Macau’s artistic practices”.
The statement said that Leong, a self-taught painter and tattoo artist who was born with a congenital limb difference, challenges bodily norms through art, with the exploration of bodily experience central to her art, which frequently feature colourful female figures, with a prominent red mark between the brows understood as the “third eye”, the statement said.
London-based painter Sin U Lam, a University of the Arts London Chelsea College of Arts graduate with a background in sculpture, translates memory, lived experience, and environmental perception into structured, architectural abstract paintings, the statement noted.
The free-admission dual showcase will run through September 30, being open from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
These images provided by Art For All Society Macau’s (AFA) yesterday show artworks by artists Alley Leong (梁天兒) and Sin U Lam that will be displayed at the upcoming exhibition at Casa Garden.
