Tampere Art Museum

Man Yau describes her own work as follows:

I work with sculptures and installations, often imitating everyday objects and aesthetic symbols of power. Materials and the value-laden associations tied to them are central to my work. I exploit the emotions and meanings evoked by demanding materials such as clay, silk, metal and glass – for example, ceramics can refer to the culture I supposedly come from, silk to the commercialization of the exotic, and glass to fragility.