「 Looking Forward」short-term exhibitions|Glimmering Encounters – Florence Yuk-Ki Lee’s Exhibition
2024.12.12 - 2025.03.2
"Rewind" and "Fast Forward" - two important buttons and functions on the VCR when playing a film. Inspired by this, two series of short-term exhibitions, "Rewind Macao" and "Looking Forward", will be held in the exhibition space on the 3rd floor of the Cinematheque・Passion. Following the exhibition of the "Immerse - VR Film Experiential Exhibition", we invited Hong Kong animation artist, Florence Yuk-ki Lee, to feature in the latest exhibition of the "Looking Forward" series. Cinematheque・Passion aspires to leverage the unique attributes of exhibition spaces, particularly within a cinematheque, to invite the public to experience the allure of non-traditional narrative film, like all kinds of moving images expanded cinema, outside of traditional cinema settings.
Florence Yuk-ki Lee unearths inspirations and ideas from the daily encounters. Through her animation works comprise digitally hand-drawn, she evokes viewers' personal memories of the mundane. Lee's works sometimes remind us of specific experiences, other times they evoke a sense of nostalgia for a bygone era. Memories or pure imagination intertwine as we watch her animations, each frame subtly different, yet seamlessly connected. Her dreamlike animation works seem to transform the exhibition space into an endless time tunnel.
▪️ Venue: 9 Travessa da Paixão, Macau
▪️ Opening Hours: 10am - 8pm everyday (except Mondays)
▪️ Free Admission
Florence Yuk-Ki Lee
Born in 1994 and raised in Hong Kong, Florence Yuk-ki Lee studied moving image at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where she graduated with a BA in 2016. She later earned an MFA in Creative Media from the City University of Hong Kong in 2021.
Florence is an media artist and animation filmmaker whose art practice encompasses experimental animation, installation, painting, and art publishing. Assembling and staging ephemeral bodies, personal stories, and poetic visual metaphors in her practice, Lee unearths ideas and inspirations from her daily encounters in Hong Kong—the city where she grew up —to investigate the multilayered connection between herself and her cultural identity. Her animation works comprise digitally hand-drawn frames that flow seamlessly from one to another, evoking numerous micro-narratives summoned from her personal memories, experiences and social shifts. Emotionally charged, Lee’s work extracts the poetic from the mundane to explore the extraordinary in the ordinary.
She has exhibited and screened her work at prominent art institutions and galleries, including M+ Museum in Hong Kong, Chengdu Art Museum in China, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Centre Pompidou online video series in France. Her animation short film Park Voyage (2022), commissioned by M+ Museum, and her debut film Elephant in Castle (2021), has received international recognition at prestigious film festivals, such as nominations for Annecy International Animation Festival in France for two consecutive years, official selections for Animafest Zagreb in Croatia.
Personal Website and More Information:
florence-lee.co