Florence Lam
Born in Vancouver, 1992 and lives in Reykjavík, Iceland and Germany
Florence Lam (b.1992, Vancouver, BC), originally from Hong Kong, lives and works between Reykjavík, Iceland and Germany. Her practice is an exercise for herself to be hopeful in any situation she encounters, working towards mainly live art including performance, installation and poetry. She experiments with methods of magical thinking, anthropomorphism and wonders to elastify worldviews by treating all elements in her work as equal in the context of universal acceptance and respect. The aim is to explore the fertility and sterility of the mind manifested through the properties of the biological body and language as a hint to the evolution of human values and spiritual understanding.
She obtained her MA in Fine Art at Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík (2017) and BA in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London (2014). Recent presentations include “You Will Find Me in the Garden”, Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art (Chiba, Japan, 2019); “Peppermint”, Kling & Bang, Reykjavík Art Festival (Reykjavík, Iceland, 2018); and “The Artist Disappears”, Cabaret der Kunstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire, Manifesta 11 (Zurich, Switzerland, 2016).
