GAROME泇弄诚意呈献【Echoes of Space - 群展】。是次展览与三位香港艺术家们合作，当中包括：摄影师Laurence Lai、水墨艺术家Lop Yan和艺术家TTS (the tiny smile)。三位艺术家分别来自不同的世代和艺术背景，他们将各自呈现一系列探索抽象和空间重要性的作品，邀请观众沉浸在艺术语言的永恒流动中。

「在摄影艺术创作中，黑白可以表达出不同的情感和意象。当中不可忽视的是灰色，不同的灰阶过渡，带出今次黑白巴黎摄影作品的灵魂。」

于香港出生和长大，自学成才的风景和纪实摄影师Laurence Lai的创作之旅已长达34年。他的摄影作品探索并记录了风景的戏剧性和宁静性。Laurence凭直觉拍照，并创作出具有自发性的作品。在此次展览，Laurence精心挑选并将首次展出他最近于巴黎的一系列摄影作品。背着Leica M4， Hasselblad 500cm菲林相机，数十卷ISO400度黑白菲林和一台 Leica M10P 数码相机，他在这个浪漫都市探索光影边界，感受黑白摄影世界中的平静与魅力。

「空间的留白就是为了让生活留出值得期待的［余地］。在作品留出相应的空白能产生遐想，从而去理解作品，让人有想象之之余地，所谓［此处无物胜有物］。让作品带出简单，含蓄，谦卑，轻柔的艺术美感。」

寓建筑师的理性于艺术家的感性，香港艺术家Lop Yan交织成独树一帜的个人美学风格。于1992在香港文化中心举行首届个人作品展览，Lop Yan初期以塑胶彩画为主，融合当代艺术将古代宋瓷碎片与塑胶彩混合媒体创作，用另一角度去欣赏陶瓷文化。至2011年，Lop Yan专注水墨书画及盆景艺术，更以混合媒体水墨盆景创作。同时，他喜欢用抽象的表达方法表达中国书法生动的韵律活力组合。在2021年，Lop Yan被《今日中国》杂誌评为年度「最杰出人物」之一。

「空是可见的，空是不可见的。探索空的变化、生灭；恒常清净，无际无限。」

香港出生并于伦敦长大，艺术家TTS以艺术作为自己直面情感的媒介，用画笔如实纪录所有情绪的生灭过程，以古朴深沉的色彩展现其对情感与虚实的探索。在社交场合总是经歷焦虑，绘画已经成为TTS一次次的冥想和仪式之旅。在作品中，她利用了单色和双色、比例和重复的力量，从而探讨存在的意义与本质。     

受中国古代单色釉瓷和凹刻凸雕花纹的技艺所啟发，TTS的画作揉合古代美学和现代符号。在匀净的单色画面上，她以堆疊的技法使画布表面产生凸起的情绪纹样，营造出特殊的视觉与触感效果。通过重复汉字「笑」以及其经典微笑标誌，艺术家的原创微笑图案唤起了维度广泛的情感体验，引导观众思考幸福，儘管波动，在生活中的重要性和意义。

GAROME 泇弄 is proud to present Echoes of Space, a group exhibition showcasing diverse works of three Hong Kong artists - photographer Laurence Lai, ink artist Lop Yan and painter TTS (the tiny smile), on view from 26 April to 12 May 2024. Coming from different generations and artistic backgrounds, each of these artists presents a selection of works that explore the importance of abstraction and space, inviting the spectator to immerse into the eternal fluidity of artistic languages. 

Born and raised in Hong Kong, self-taught landscape and documentary photographer Laurence has embarked on a creative journey for over three decades. His photography explores and documents the landscape's capacity for both drama and serenity. Laurence often photographs with intuition and creates work with a sense of spontaneity.

At the upcoming exhibition, Laurence will be showcasing a series of carefully selected photography works from his recent Paris trip for the first time. With a Leica M4, a Hasselblad 500cm film camera, 40 rolls of ISO 400 black and white film, and a Leica M10P digital camera in his bag, Laurence indulged himself in the art of black and white photography and explored the borderlines of light and shadow in Paris.

As an architect by profession, Lop Yan integrates his professional principles with his love of art, creating his own unique art form that combines architectural discipline and artistic expression. 

He interprets Chinese traditional landscape painting, taking nature as the inspiration for their contemporary forms. Lop Yan's artistic mission is to preserve traditional Chinese art and culture, and to express the vivid rhythmic vitality combination of Chinese calligraphy with abstract expression methods. In 2021, Lop Yan was named one of the year’s “Most Outstanding Persons” by Today’s Chinese Journal. 

Born in Hong Kong and grew up in London, TTS is an artist exploring the emotional depth and contrasts experienced with the arising and ceasing of feelings – “fictionality and trueness”. Having always experienced anxiety in social situations, painting has become a meditative and ritualistic journey to TTS. In her artworks, she harnesses the power of monochrome and duocolour, scale and repetition which calls for self-analysis and questioning on our own existence. 

Inspired by the techniques of ancient Chinese monochrome glazed porcelain and embossed patterns, TTS integrates ancient aesthetics with contemporary motifs on canvases of simple yet profound colours. Using repetitive layering techniques to build up an array of emotionally driven tactile elements, TTS transforms the canvases into contemplative spaces with quiet yet dynamic energy. By repeating the Chinese character 「笑」(Smile) to create an original pattern, or her signature upward-downward smiley motif, TTS vividly brings a modern twist to traditional Chinese artistic techniques, guiding viewers to reflect on the importance and significance of the emotion of happiness in life despite its frequent fluctuations.