Ng Man Shan
Ng Man Shan likes printing, painting and using different media to combine in paintings. She uses acrylic as the main painting material and combines some marine or daily material elements into her works. For her, she likes to explore the world of marine life, as well as the life and death of marine life. She felt that the miserable experiences of marine creatures were forced by the environment and they were unable to resist and escape or even died directly. To a certain extent, it is closely related to human relationships and even reflects the human condition. Thus, she wants to express this feeling through paintings, allowing viewers to explore the connection between marine life and humans.
吳雯珊喜歡版畫，繪畫並使用不同媒介結合在畫作上。她以塑膠彩作為主要繪畫材料，並將一些關於海洋或日常的物料元素融入在作品當中。對她來說，她喜歡探討海洋生物的世界，海洋生物的生與死。她覺得海洋生物的淒慘遭遇，環境的逼迫，無法反抗逃脫甚至直接死亡。在某程度上，這和人類關係息息相關，甚至反映了人類的境遇。因此，她想透過畫作表達出這種感覺，令觀眾探索海洋生物和人類之間的連繫。
Acrylic and Cyperus Malaccensis Lam. on canvas, oil pastel on paper
塑膠彩和鹹水草布本、油粉彩紙本
30cm x 40cm, 20cm x 25cm, 20cm x 25cm, 12.7cm x 17.8cm, 12.7cm x 17.8cm, 12.7cm x 17.8cm, 12.7cm x 17.8cm, 12.7cm x 17.8cm
30厘米 x 40厘米, 20厘米 x 25厘米, 20厘米 x 25厘米, 12.7厘米x 17.8厘米, 12.7厘米 x 17.8厘米, 12.7厘米 x 17.8厘米, 12.7cm x 17.8厘米, 12.7厘米 x 17.8厘米
This is a series of works consisting of three acrylics and four oil pastel paintings. The crab is used as the protagonist to express the feeling of being restrained, powerless, and having life and death easily controlled. When the crab thought it had weapons to resist, it was restrained and unable to struggle, and could only wait for death, which was even more ironic. Thus, this is exactly what is destined.
這是一系列由三幅塑膠彩和四幅油粉彩畫作所組成的作品。用蟹為主角表達出束縛，無能為力，生與死被輕易控制的感覺。當牠以為具備武器可以反抗時，卻被束縛無法掙扎，只能等待死亡，顯得更為諷刺。而這正正就是注定的命運。
2023
Etching
These three works are all made into a series with the theme of ‘fish'. The concept was that one day I suddenly saw this fish lying on a foamboard in the market, relying on an air pump to survive, so I wanted to record it as one of the images. It shows that another fate of this fish is death. It was cooked and the condiments on the side were like fish’s sacrificial offerings.
2023
Book, screen print, cotton thread
14.8cm x 21cm
I use an experimental method to count sheep by drawing sheep by myself and measuring how long it took me to count sheep before falling asleep, to record my sleep state. I chose the white-on-white method because it can create a dreamy effect, and not all sheep can be seen at a glance, giving way to some mystery and privacy. In the end, I found that each sheep has its characteristics, and every time I drew one, the more I wanted to sleep, the sheep’s lines start to get messed up, and even the order of the numbers became wrong.
2023
Acrylic on styrofoam
The concept is wishing for a rich catch.