uring the three year-long Covid-19 confinement, many Hong Kong galleries had little choice but to showcase young and trendy local artists, who mainly produced affordable paintings on canvas. It was thus refreshing to see a solo exhibition, “Chasing an Elusive Nature,” by Jaffa Lam, an artist who embarked on her career producing sculptures and installations in the 1990s after abandoning her ink calligraphy practice,, or trash), has led her to be dubbed a member of Hong Kong’s “lost generation” of artists.
