Law Yuk Mui’s works often anchored on the notion of water as the point of departure to explore the geopolitics and history of Hong Kong, as well as the maritime migration of Asian populations in a Cold War context. As her first monograph spans 13 years (2010 -2023) of creations, The Seawater, So Blue It’s Black is a journey of retrospection that began with a misplaced ‘imagined geography’. It not only summoned Law’s bodily memories of fieldwork, but also spatial, emotional, and mnemonic entanglements and imaginations that have knotted into a lifeline for the artist to move forward.
羅玉梅的創作常以「水體」為線索，探索香港的地緣政治與歷史，以及冷戰時期亞裔人口的海上遷移。作為其首本作品集，《海水藍到變黑》藉由一個錯置的地理想像去展開一趟跨越十三年(2010 -2023)的創作回溯，不只召喚了許多藝術家過往做田野調查時的身體記憶；空間、情感、記憶紐結想像，十多年，交織出一個麻花，是藝術家給自己的一條救生繩，如她在自序寫下：「欲前行，如果可以」 。
About the artist
Law Yuk-mui is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator; currently lives and works between Japan and Hong Kong. Using “expanded cinema” as her artistic expression, and adopting the methodology of field study and collecting, she often intervenes the mundane space and daily life of the city and catches the physical traces of history, psychological pathways of human, the marks of time and the political power in relation to geographic space. Sound is the anchor point in Law’s creation. Her interests comprise of the political and cultural rhetoric of sound, with sound as bodily memory, and orchestrate the interplay among sound, text and visual.
Law Yuk-mui have been named to Foundwork Artist Prize 2021 short list, and received The Awards for young artist (media art category) of Hong Kong Arts development Awards and the Excellence Award (Media Art Category) of The 23rd ifva Awards in 2018.
羅玉梅是一名跨媒介藝術家，藝術教育工作者，現居於日本及香港兩地。創作以為「擴延電影」主要媒介。常以田野調查和搜集為方法，介入城市空間及日常， 捕捉歷史的物理痕跡、人的心理軌跡、時間的形跡與地緣政治的關係。聲音是羅玉梅創作的重要切入。聲音背後的政治與文化隱喻，聲音作為身體記憶，以及聲音與文字視覺之間的互換都是她的實驗範圍。
羅玉梅入圍2021 Foundwork Artist Prize 最終候選名單, 於2018年同時獲香港藝術發展局藝術新秀獎（媒體藝術）和第十五屆ifva獨立短片及影像媒體比賽（媒體藝術組）傑出作品獎。