Exhibition Opening - Thursday 4 Sept, 6pm
Laetitia Um’s work navigates the emotional terrains of heartbreak, longing, and transformation. Through animation, sculpting, and illustration, she distills the nuances of the human condition into visual form. Informed by her mixed Salvadoran and Chinese-Timorese heritage, she draws on the vivid storytelling traditions of Latin American and Asian cinema. These impressions are carried into her process, merging digital tools with traditional techniques, generating a tension between the ephemeral and the tactile. Rooted in dreamy clarity and hand-drawn simplicity, her work becomes a contemplative space. It offers a visual language for processing personal and collective emotional experiences in an increasingly polarised world.
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