Bookmark: Jaffa Lam
By The Contributing Artist
For Bookmark, ArtAsiaPacific invites an artist to spotlight some of their online sources of inspiration. This week we asked Jaffa Lam.
Jaffa Lam, known for her conceptual community projects, first became interested in a socially responsible art form during her solo exhibition at Shatin Town Hall in 2003, at the time of the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong. The four wooden sculptures on display were created in response to frightened radio dialogue between community members. Subsequent works, shown in exhibitions including the tributary "Looking for Antonio Mak" (2008) and the 2010 Hong Kong Art Biennial, have sought to create opportunities for community engagement. A profile of the artist can be found in ArtAsiaPacific issue 75.
