Luk Ka Ki, Jazmin
In the heart of Hong Kong’s bustling cityscape, Jazmin Luk finds her muse in the serene emptiness of its nocturnal streets. As an artist with a penchant for nature, the environment, and their symbiotic relationship with humans, Jazmin’s canvases present the themes of his works on canvas through oil painting and a more realistic approach, bringing a real sense of resonance to the viewer. Her iconic works echo the quiet, amplified sensory experience of Hong Kong’s desolate nighttime streets, exploring the surreal calm of the city’s “empty” aesthetic. Through her art, Jazmin invites the viewer to feel the pulse of a vivid, real, and beautifully imagined world.
Oil on canvas
80cm x 197cm
Hong Kong is a bustling city, always crowded with people and vehicles during the day. How would you feel if there were no people or cars on the streets of Hong Kong after dark? Will you feel relaxed or weird? The work depicts the scene that Jazmin Luk saw while walking the streets of Hong Kong at night and the shoes she was wearing then. The brightly lit but deserted road creates an atmosphere as uncanny and unreal as a dream. The work aims to explore the aesthetics of unreality and emptiness on the deserted Hong Kong streets late at night.
2023
Oil on canvas
60cm x 60cm
Hong Kong is a busy city. But when I was walking on the streets of Hong Kong late at night, my five senses were infinitely magnified by the darkness and quiet environment. The brightly lit but empty roads gave me a strange and unreal feeling like a dream. The work is to explore the sense of unreality on the roads of Hong Kong where no one is in the middle of the night and also the aesthetic of the Empty