Yaya Lo Tsz Wan

I consider myself as a direct observer and seeker from the surrounding space, who is obsessed with finding implicated correlations between the boundaries of light and shadow, artificial and natural, reality and fantasy. Most of my paintings record a journey of specific scenarios encountered, which sometimes consist of revelations that could be inscrutable.

In my recent practices, the boundaries of a 'frame' is being investigated, which the physicality of the painting frame could be interpreted as a metaphor of other objects such as windows, as to conceptually transport the viewers to another space through a specific viewpoint. In The Window, I explore how framing devices shape perception and distance, reflecting on the quiet poetics of looking and the tension between intimacy and detachment by observing and documenting the diverse windows I encounter in my daily routine—from barber shops and basement flats to overground trains and campus buildings. These 'framed' stories invite multiple readings. They ask each viewer to reflect on how they see others, and what that reveals about themselves. The story becomes open-ended, suspended between presence and absence, observation and reflection. It is shaped not by the subject alone, but through the act of looking itself, which makes the window not just a literal architectural element, but a poetic threshold for human experience.