Lai Lai, Natalie Lo
Lives and works in Hong Kong
Artist statement
Lo Lai Lai Natalie | 勞麗麗 (b. Hong Kong) lives and works in Hong Kong. She began her career as a travel journalist before developing deeper interests in food, regenerative farming, plant intelligence, fermentation, surveillance, and meditation. Through her farming practice, she engages with nature using photography, video, and installation art. Her work has been featured in screening programs at major institutions, including M+ Museum Hong Kong, Centre Pompidou Paris, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin. She has participated in Lahore Biennale (2024), Gwangju Biennale (2024), and exhibitions at Asian Art Museum San Francisco and UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, among others. Her moving image works are part of collector Dr Uli Sigg's private collection and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Her work has received significant recognition, including the WMA Commission Grant (2018-19), Award for Young Artist (Visual Arts Category) of the 16th Arts Development Awards, Hong Kong (2022), and the Gold Award in the Media Art Category at Hong Kong Art Centre's 26th ifva Awards (2021). She earned an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica Festival (2024) in the State of the ART(ist) category and was selected as a finalist for The Format25 Open Call in 2025.
Artwork
- Deliberately Flow, 2023. Single Channel Video
- A Messenger – Passerby in Our Battlefields, 2023. Duo Channel Video
- 飛行備忘 A Messenger - Passerby in Our Battlefields, 2023. Duo Channel Video
- As Shards of Dawn Shot Though the Dark, 2023. Duo Channel Video
- The Days Before the Silent Spring (Video Installation shots), 2020. Video Installation
- The Days Before The Silent Spring (Documentation), 2020. Video Installation
- Give No Words But Mum (Video Installation Shots), 2020. Video Installation
- Give No Words But Mum(documentation of the video installation), 2020. Interactive Video Installation; 3-channel interactive video installation, electronic sensor unit, artificial plant, lamp, coffee table, seat cushions, weather stick, barometer with thermometer and hygrometer
- A Continuous Colouring Game, 2018. Single Channel Video
- The Circadian Clock Series (Photography)and A Continous Colouring Game(Video), exhibition view, 2023. oil paint, archival fine art printing
- Cold Fire (Video of a video installation), 2019. Video Installation
- Cold Fire (Still and Video Installation shots), 2019. Video Installation
- Silent Karaoke (Still and installation shots), 2017. Interactive Video Installation
- Silent Karaoke (Excerpt of videos), 2017. Interactive Video Installation
- Deep Flight, 2017. Video
- Glacier, 2016. video
- HK FARMers Almanac, 2015. Publication
- Sangwoodgoon, a collective farm in Hong Kong. , 2010