Synopsis

Elephant in Castle (2021) is a 2D digital animation, using a hand-drawn frame-by-frame process to create subtle abstract narratives. Created within the context of two strange years, 2019 and 2020 respectively, the work expresses a constant change within the artist’s inner world. It depicts the emotional, aesthetic, and tactile responses that she has to Hong Kong, the city where she grew up. Stepping into a new decade, the world is coming to an unprecedented and critical moment in history. Making these sequences is a reflexive process, on discovering her own subject matter, as well as the complex world she is living in.

Florence Yuk Ki Lee

Florence Yuk Ki Lee (1994, Hong Kong) is an independent creative practitioner working across animation, moving image, illustration and visual communication. Florence completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Graphic Design, Moving Image Specialism at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2016 and went on to obtain a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong in 2021. Her works explore the extraordinary in the ordinary, often expressing her emotional, aesthetic and poetic responses to different places. Animation and drawing have become the best way of communicating what she thinks. She found love in 12 frames per second and never looked back.