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Tja Ling Hu shows how complex our connections to the past can be

door Wieteke van Zeil (de Volkskrant)

20 December 2021

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Tja Ling Hu

When artists start examining their origins, it often results in interesting art. After all, creativity flourishes where cultures collide. Tja Ling Hu’s drawings feel like a desolate landscape in which every person depicted is searching for something. Her pencil lines support the story’s atmosphere: the cramped space on the boat, the whirlpools in the water which turn refugees into victims of drowning, the shadows on the sides of a cot that look like prison bars.

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