By: Natalie Lo Lai Lai / Curated by: Wong Ka Ying
“Cold Fire” is a short film by Lo Lai Lai Natalie that reflects on change through the process of fermentation.The film moves between images of the everyday life, the work traces cycles of growth, decay, and renewal. Rooted in the artist’s experience as a farmer in Hong Kong, it speaks to a quiet solitude shaped by working against dominant systems. Here, being alone is not absence, but a space for endurance, care, and slow transformation.
Natalie Lo Lai Lai is a Hong Kong artist, researcher, and farmer whose practice spans moving image, installation, and performance. With a background as a travel journalist, her work explores the intersections of food systems, ecology, labour, and everyday life. Since the late 2000s, Lo has been actively engaged in Hong Kong’s farming communities, using agriculture as both a method and a site of resistance against rapid urban development and land transformation.
Her works have been presented internationally, including at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), and UCCA (Beijing). She has participated in major biennales such as Gwangju Biennale and Lahore Biennale. Lo’s practice reflects a sustained inquiry into how human and non-human relations unfold within systems of control and uncertainty, often foregrounding slowness, care, and resilience as alternative ways of living.
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Part of “Being Alone - Artistic Perspectives from Central and East Asia and Beyond“, a project within “Solitude: Loneliness & Freedom,” an initiative of the Goethe-Institutes in East and Central Asia in cooperation with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Curatorial contribution by Wong Ka Ying.
Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2.
