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Inner Worlds | Artist Jaffa Lam

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<p><em>Art Basel’s 'Inner Worlds' film series visits creatives in the places that most inspire them</em></p><style>@font-face 	{font-family:"Cambria Math"; 	panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; 	mso-font-charset:0; 	mso-generic-font-family:roman; 	mso-font-pitch:variable; 	mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-unhide:no; 	mso-style-qformat:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}p.paragraph, li.paragraph, div.paragraph 	{mso-style-name:paragraph; 	mso-style-unhide:no; 	mso-margin-top-alt:auto; 	margin-right:0cm; 	mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; 	margin-left:0cm; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}span.eop 	{mso-style-name:eop; 	mso-style-unhide:no;}.MsoChpDefault 	{mso-style-type:export-only; 	mso-default-props:yes; 	font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; 	mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}div.WordSection1 	{page:WordSection1;}</style><p>‘What can artists do for society?’ Hong Kong-based artist Jaffa Lam asks herself this question every time she’s about to start an artwork. Collaborating with local workers is central to her practice. This approach, combined with her use of found and recycled materials, results in sculptures and installations that address themes of labor, identity, and collectivity.</p><p>Lam has worked with the Hong Kong Women Workers’ Association, a group of former female garment factory workers, since 2009. In the film, we see them working with Lam to sew the recycled umbrella fabric that forms part of her latest work. ‘I try to talk to the workers and to understand their situation. Why they are here and how they work,’ she says. Thus, the artist’s practice offers a new life to both the workers and the material while creating something intangible: community.  </p><p>Jaffa Lam is represented by <a href="https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/gallery/2177/Axel-Vervoordt-Gallery">Axel Vervoordt Gallery</a> (Hong Kong, Antwerp) and <a href="https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/gallery/2369/Zilberman-Gallery">Zilberman Gallery</a> (Istanbul, Berlin). <em>Trolley Party</em> (2023), the work in production in the film, will be on view as part of Art Basel Hong Kong’s Encounters sector.</p><style>@font-face 	{font-family:"Cambria Math"; 	panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; 	mso-font-charset:0; 	mso-generic-font-family:roman; 	mso-font-pitch:variable; 	mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-unhide:no; 	mso-style-qformat:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}p.MsoCommentText, li.MsoCommentText, div.MsoCommentText 	{mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-priority:99; 	mso-style-link:"Comment Text Char"; 	margin:0cm; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}span.MsoCommentReference 	{mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-priority:99; 	mso-ansi-font-size:8.0pt; 	mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;}p.paragraph, li.paragraph, div.paragraph 	{mso-style-name:paragraph; 	mso-style-unhide:no; 	mso-margin-top-alt:auto; 	margin-right:0cm; 	mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; 	margin-left:0cm; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}span.normaltextrun 	{mso-style-name:normaltextrun; 	mso-style-unhide:no;}span.eop 	{mso-style-name:eop; 	mso-style-unhide:no;}span.CommentTextChar 	{mso-style-name:"Comment Text Char"; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-priority:99; 	mso-style-unhide:no; 	mso-style-locked:yes; 	mso-style-link:"Comment Text"; 	mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; 	mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; 	mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";}span.msoDel 	{mso-style-type:export-only; 	mso-style-name:""; 	text-decoration:line-through; 	color:red;}.MsoChpDefault 	{mso-style-type:export-only; 	mso-default-props:yes; 	font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; 	mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; 	mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; 	mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}div.WordSection1 	{page:WordSection1;}</style><p>Director: Benny Woo<br />Producer: Chan Chin Ho<br />Director of Photography: Calvin Yam<br />Camera Assistant: Chi<br />Gaffer: Wai Tze Kin<br />Editor: Benny Woo</p><p>Nowness<br />Creative Director: Bunny Kinney<br />Managing Director: Gavin Humphries<br />Video Commissioner: Katie Metcalfe<br />Producer: Noor Miah<br />Video Editor: Harry Bowley</p><p>Art Basel<br />Executive Editor: Coline Milliard<br />Senior Editor: Alicia Reuter<br />Video Commissioner: Jeanne-Salomé Rochat<br />Creative Producer: Akiel Gallina</p><p>See also Jaffa Lam in <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DC2tBjA6VMjA&amp;data=05%7C01%7CArianna.Guidi%40artbasel.com%7Cba1ce52959aa42ba6f0a08db256ece4b%7C4deb802ffdf24ebeae9b8df74fb06435%7C0%7C0%7C638144930047303490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=tiXINQcrMp%2BFT2IP2JP6Uua6MGrYXAGPyDG70QOmIfs%3D&amp;reserved=0">'We Have Never Unknown Each Other'</a>, at Art Basel Hong Kong 2014</p>

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