Firenze Lai (1984, Hong Kong) is a painter. Her work centres on anonymous figures in constrained or transitional settings. She once described her works as ‘situation portraits’. Her paintings explore how bodily posture and mental states reflect the ways people cope with imposed systems and shifting power dynamics in social and political structures. Recent exhibitions include PLACE-NESS. Habitar un lugar, Centre Pompidou Málaga, 2023; and Horror in the Modernist Block, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2022. Lai lives and works in London.

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