Covid-19 isolation the catalyst for Hong Kong digital artist’s cyberpunk ode to city’s neon signs and streetscapes, featured in new exhibition
- 3D artist Desmond Lo’s vivid, otherworldly images in exhibition ‘Lost and Found’ are inspired by Hong Kong’s cityscape, with a focus on neon and skyscrapers
- The pieces were fuelled by the ‘suffocating’ reality of the coronavirus pandemic, Lo says. A Hong Kong neon artist’s works also feature
The coronavirus pandemic affected people in different ways. For artist Desmond Lo, he felt like he was trapped in a time warp.
“For a couple of years, time was a blur, you know, like where did my life go?” says Lo. “I was in a bubble, constantly struggling to stay on top of things,” he says.
“As an artist, that’s stifling and suffocating.” But it didn’t stop him from creating.
His pandemic-induced solitude became the catalyst for his latest works, on view in the show “Lost and Found”, an exhibition at Kowloon’s Shout Contemporary gallery on until November 13, which also features works by Hong Kong neon artist Jive Lau.
“‘Lost and Found’ taps into the positives and negatives of the past couple of years,” he says. “We lost a lot of things – freedoms and privileges – but at the same time we found love and support from family and an appreciation for the smaller things in life.”
