Rachel Lo

“The pictures are there, and you just take them.” (Robert Capa)

Reality is what young artist Rachel Lo is interested in and her paintings look like taken pictures. They capture the ordinary life of the people of her community in Hong Kong; they are paintings that do not concern only the objects that populate them but also the experiences that the artist draws from her observations. With her ability to portray spontaneous and unique moments, Lo’s works resemble photographs that capture a true, real and ordinary life, which is yet solemn in its humanity and humility. Lo decodes what surrounds her in photographic images through the perception and association of colours that may not be there in reality. These instantaneous impressions conveyed through colours and objects tend to exalt the sensation of a unique moment and instant over everything Lo, in fact, does not seek extravagant colours or extraordinary events; rather, she just reveals the simple truth of her reality