“Photography in Southeast Asia” series is back again after a difficult time in the past few years. Collaborating with ZHUANG Wubin, this year we invited Donna Chiu to participate in the 4th “Photography in Southeast Asia” Series in Lumenvisum. Born in Hong Kong, Chiu moved to Singapore in 1996. As an immigrant with distant relationship with her family, it has been a long and arduous process to build a sense of “home”. In this exhibition, she tries to understand and express her own experiences and emotions through her art-making, and to explore the possibilities in destiny of life.

Donna Chiu is a visual artist. She said she came from a diasporic family. Not only because she and her family do not always stay together, it also reflects her personal experience of moving to Singapore in her early years. Chiu’s practice focuses mainly on painting and photography, "I like to experiment with texture, which gives me the feeling of layering my different experiences and emotions. The photographic images in this exhibition mark specific incidents in our diasporic journeys.”

The "Photography in Southeast Asia" of Lumenvisum has been postponed because of tightened departure and arrival policies due to the epidemic in the past few years. As ordinary people, in the face of sudden changes in life, we may feel helpless sometimes, realising that nothing much we can do in fact. How to face the helplessness and uneasiness that similar to the feelings that Chiu and her family faced during their diasporic journeys, it might be the lesson of all of us.

Gallery address: L2-02, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, 30 Pak Tin Street, Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon