Sarah Lai Cheuk Wah

Sarah Lai obtained her BA in Fine Arts in 2007, and is currently pursuing her MFA at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was a finalist of the 2010 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. The subjects of Sarah Lai’s paintings include highly familiar, mundane objects such as a desk lamp, a steam rack, or a glass of water. Isolated from their ordinary context and deprived of indications of their utilitarian function, these relics of our commodity culture take on a surprising aura, reaching a certain degree of abstraction and beauty.