Artists: Angela Lyn - Luo Mingjun - Ursula Palla

Between the clouds, water splashes and flowers lie traces of identity and memory. The works exhibited by Luo Mingjun, Angela Lyn, and Ursula Palla use natural elements to delicately visualize the passage of time. Intersecting with everyday objects and technologies, these motifs evolve on a continuum between the tangible and ephemeral, lingering and ever-changing, real and artificial. Lechbinska Gallery invites you to explore the visual and sensual qualities of the natural scenes on display at Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Booth A22.

Influenced by both Eastern and Western culture, the exploration of a universal perspective is a central concept in the practice of Luo Mingjun and Angela Lyn. Deeply connected to their Chinese heritage, these artists have a long-standing national and cultural connection to Switzerland. Throughout their work, a sense of alienation remains present, reflecting their personal identity and hazy memories of times past, to be rediscovered in the present.

Native to the abundant Swiss natural landscape, Ursula Palla reflects on the fragility of the natural world and our collective responsibility towards its sustainability. The exhibited works position the natural environment as a mirror of social identity and practice.

Luo Mingjun’s photorealistic painting of teacups, ‘’You and me II’’ (2017), captures traces of the self and others in the world; to recognize, reflect, and redirect. Adorned with branches like Angela Lyn’s desert weeds in ‘’oxygen I-III’’ (2019), both artists explore the concept of social unification, framed by their life experience and elements of the natural world. In Ursula Palla’s Video installation ‘’Wild Lily 2’’ (2022), a contrasting sense of fragility and rootedness is shown in the delicate balance between the natural and artificial. The position of the self and our natural environment is at once tangible and ever-changing. Grounded in the substantial material of the steel roots, the lily finds its anchor. This delicate projection is imbued with life through the soft blowing of the wind. The medicinal properties of the lily connect with Palla’s own identity, used by her grandmother to create natural medicine. The video installation invites one to take a step back and reflect on the sustained position of nature in today’s technological society.

 

The high level of attention to detail in the works of Luo Mingjun, Angela Lyn, and Ursula Palla demands both time and reflection, capturing traces of the past, fostering awareness in the present, and stimulating reflection about the future.