Lot 734
Let them be Kids
LIU Lai-ue (Hong Kong, 1991)
2018
Ink, Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor on Paper
76 x 152 cm
Estimate
TWD 120,000-220,000
HKD 31,000-57,000
USD 3,900-7,200
CNY 27,000-50,000
Sold Price
TWD 144,000
HKD 36,548
USD 4,671
CNY 32,432
This series focuses on raising awareness to the public of letting children to explore the world through play. Playtime is an integral role for children's development before they enter their adulthood. When children play, they solve problems and experience themselves as competent and masterful individuals. Through free play, children are able to discover and invent solutions to challenges. In this series, the artist is questioning how do we keep that fun, childlike freedom well and never let age or high-pressure education style extinguish the fire of our inner child?
Children are faceless symbolized the collective society where individualism is not fully encouraged. Figures here are soulless- like in grey tones and transparent looks, it is because of that spirits are suppressed and crushed by social expectations as well as heavy workloads, but the hidden pastel child-like colors in the background are giving the hope on foreseeing and promising to bloom once these children reach the ball , which metaphor the freedom.
PROVENANCE: BLINK GALLERY, Hong Kong
Connoisseurship II: The Literati Sale
Ravenel Autumn Auction 2018
Saturday, December 1, 2018, 4:30pm