Reflecting Nature Through Ink and Imagination: Lam Tung Pang Artist Talk

Join us for an artist talk with Lam Tung Pang, whose immersive installation Mountains de-bonding reimagines the legacy of Chinese landscape painting through contemporary materials and ecological reflection. Working in charcoal and ink on plywood, Lam blends historical reverence with modern experimentation, building monumental panels that echo the visual language of sacred mountain woodblock prints.

Lam will discuss how his training in Fine Arts, particularly at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, informs his creative practice today. From the use of humble materials like plywood to his interpretation of the shan shui tradition, Lam’s work reflects both the permanence and enduring beauty of mountains and the impermanence and fragility of the environments they symbolize. Drawing parallels between ancient techniques and present-day environmental concerns and materials, this talk invites viewers to consider the natural world as both inspiration and mirror.Hong Kong born Lam Tung Pang, working as an artist between Hong Kong, London and Beijing in his early stage, now lives and works in North America and Hong Kong. Lam's coming-of-age coincides with drastic social changes, a result of his homeland’s decolonization from constitutional monarchy and new allegiance to China in a short span of time. Traversing between the media of painting, site-specific installation, sound and video, Lam’s playful practice arises from a curious imagination that recombines traditional iconography and vernacular elements, innovating with a myriad of found objects and images to form new practices that are often experimental in nature. Lam’s works engage the themes of collective memories and fleeting nostalgia, which articulate an ongoing negotiation of the overlapping city-state’s reality. In his allegorical landscapes, journeys and sceneries become essential passages connecting time and distance, longing and loss.Lam’s work is collected by LACMA (Los Angeles), Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), Burger Collection, the Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Hong Kong Museum of Art (Hong Kong), Kadist Art Foundation (France and USA), White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection (Australia) and M+ (Hong Kong), among others.

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