STATEMENT

Tung Lo, a name that means ‘ a passage taken by a child ’, is an artist who embraces life with a boy’s fresh eyes. Few years after his Metaphysics series, Tung’s notion of time is reinterpreted in his recent portrait series of Memories. Female faces and bodies are drawn on either Chinese rice paper or canvas. Silhouetted with only simple Chinese calligraphic strokes, the monotone of the figures with detached expression contrasts with the colorful fragments of old cloths or newspaper, which are scattered over the surface. The layers of collage signify impulse of sentiments and fragments of the things past that flash behind human faces. They are the momentary reveries that Tung Lo tries to grasp. Hidden underneath these images are the longing for ideals and sympathy for the lost dreams and identity in postmodern society.

“On my journey through contemporary art I witness its estranging of form and intension, I see data reshaping the space, information redirecting our perception, fashion transforming Utopia, and I see how you are transfigured by consumption. Life is my love story, everyday a baby comes into being, to draw the new, the brilliance, the nobility, the honesty, the reason for being who I am.” -Tung Lo