In her works, Firenze Lai explores how the mind and body of a person adapt and react to different circumstances in their everyday life. Born in Hong Kong in 1984, she graduated from Hong Kong Art School with a focus in painting. She currently works and lives in Hong Kong.
Read MoreShe works in a gestural and painterly style — her figurative works express the interpersonal connections and internal psychological states of people negotiating an overcrowded city and an uncertain modern world. Lai's work has been widely exhibited, and was selected for the 57th Venice Biennale, Viva Arte Viva (2017) and the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014).
Firenze Lai's solo exhibition has included The Citizens (2006), The Garden of Roundabouts (2009) and Absent-minded (2011), all held in Hong Kong. Two books of her works have been published. She also co-founded and ran the Hulahoop Gallery which she ran during 2007–2009. Her paintings and drawings have been published regularly in the Ming Pao Weekly since 2005.
Text courtesy White Rabbit Gallery
