was born in British Hong Kong. She worked as an art teacher for seven years and witnessed the great changes that occurred after Hong Kong was handed over to China following British colonization. Since 2018, she has relocated to Prague to pursue her master’s degree. Art and politics cannot leave Loretta’s life since the start of the Hong Kong Movement in 2019. In May 2021 she became the director of the NGO DEI, a center for Hong Kong art and culture based in the Czech Republic and working among the Hong Kong diaspora in Europe, as well as organizing exhibitions, panel discussions and cultural events. Her first performance on June 2019 was entitled “Letter to my people” in DOX, where she was shaved as a symbol of an impending prison sentence. Four months later, she presented a public art performance – ‘Mem-ory Eraser’ in the National Theater in Prague, she was in the custody of a 2 meters white cube for 24 hours. Her performances are searching the boundaries between political and personal identities, which are exhibiting throughout Europe. She was also invited to be one of the speakers in Forum 2000 and reported by several major interna-tional press outlets, like Hong Kong Free Press, Sankei Shimbun and The Diplomat. Apart from her performance arts, she established the NGO DEI and devotes herself in art advocacy since 2021, the NGO DEI is a vibrant art and cultural center not only for Hong Kong community in Europe, but advocating freedom and human rights with other minority groups. An Ukrainian Center operated in the NGO DEI since the war started in late February 2022, which supported by 60 volunteers. Loretta and the NGO DEI are now actively working on cultural events and exhibitions internationally, including in the UK, the Czech Republic, Germany, The Netherlands, Canada, Taiwan and Norway.
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