袁雅芝出生並現居於香港。
她從生活狀態與工作經歷的矛盾中汲取靈感。
近年來,她主要從歷史、地理和政治的角度探討動物的題材,
從圈養動物的狀態,了解這些狀態與人們的關係和相似性。
2016年取得香港藝術學院藝術高級文憑並於 2019 年獲得香港浸會大學視覺藝術文學士。
作品曾於香港、日本、新加坡及倫敦等地展出。
Yuen Nga Chi was born and lives in Hong Kong.
She draws inspiration from the contradiction between living conditions and working experience. In recent years, she has mainly explored the theme of animals, the state of captive animals, and the relationship and similarity between these states and humans from historical, geographical and political perspectives.
She obtained a Higher Diploma in Fine Arts from the Hong Kong Art School in 2016 and a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2019. Her works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and London, etc.
紀念像:飛寶,愛達與蜜糖
愛達篇
Monuments : Flipper, Ada and Honey
Chapter 1 : Ada
當自然被私有化;
人類獨自向動物發展從屬關係;
屍體成為化石再塑成雕像;
飛寶、愛達與蜜糖;
香港回歸時,中華白海豚被選為回歸吉祥物,
縱然漁民視他們為忌。
海上頻繁的建設,讓海豚持續遷移居所,從北至西。
愛達是世界上其中一隻成功被人工受孕的海豚。
2019年,成為主題公園短暫攝影師的我,開始拍攝動物。
生活在水池的愛達,看不見海洋。
而在大海中生存的中華白海豚,亦不見得能安逸過活。
香港多處也設置海豚雕像,悠然地站在岸上。
抬頭看著雕像,嘗試放慢眼光去凝視,破裂的、
微笑的、空心的。他以甚麼成為雕像而站著。
一具沉默而堅硬的屍體,安放在這裡,不被釋放的意義。
美國、香港與日本。
When nature is privatised;
man alone develops a subordination to the animals;
The fossilization of corpses into statues;
Flipper, Ada, and Honey;
Chinese white dolphins were chosen as the mascot for Hong Kong's handover, even though they were considered taboo by fishermen. Frequent construction at sea has seen the dolphins continue to move their habitat from north to west.
Ada is one of the dolphins in the world to have been successfully impregnated in captivity.
In 2019, I became a temporary theme park photographer and started snapping the animals.
Ada, who lives in a pool, cannot see the ocean.
The Chinese white dolphins living in the sea are not always at ease either.
Dolphin statues were erected in many places in Hong Kong, standing on the shore. Look up at the statue. Try to slow down your gaze. See them broken, smiling, hollowed. He stands as a statue of something.
A silent and hardened dead body rests here, its meaning restrained.
USA, Hong Kong, and Japan.