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Clovia Tsoi

A full-body side view of a light-furred Addax antelope with long, dark, spiraled horns, standing on a dark gray asphalt road. Its head is facing left and slightly lowered. The background shows a vast green grassland with rolling hills under a bright, overcast sky, dotted with several other blurred antelopes and dark vehicles, indicative of a drive-through wildlife reserve.

The photographs here are presented as isolated, with no linear narrative connecting them, just like fragments of dreams. They draw from the aesthetics of liminal space and dreamcore, constructing scenes that feel at once recognizable and strangely alien, from the spaces and memories you cannot name. They hint at what lies in the subconscious: memory, trauma, traces of childhood, and unspoken emotions.

About The Artist

A vibrant, expressive close-up illustration of a human face, drawn with a crayon or colored pencil effect on a textured white background. The drawing features dark, outlined eyes looking right, a nose with prominent yellow highlights, and full, reddish-orange lips. A circular area of dense red scribbles marks the left cheek as rosy blush, while faint grey, curly lines define the left side of the head.

Clovia Tsoi

Clovia Tsoi is a visual artist primarily working in photography. She is a wanderer and an observer, using her lens to capture the emotional and environmental "temperature" of her surroundings—through metaphor and misty ambiguity. For Clovia, dreams and memories are not just subjects but a profound source of belonging, the very foundation of how she perceives the world.

Her work is characterized by an aesthetic of dark tones, the grotesque, dreamcore, and minimalism, creating a subtle tension between the familiar and the uncanny. She believes that a photograph resonates because it evokes a shared experience, reaching into the collective memories we all carry—through suggestion rather than explanation, through haze rather than clarity.

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