Sculpted Impressions – 2026.05.05

Co-organized by FRC, the Macau Youth Art Association (澳門青年美術協會), and the Macau Artist Society (澳門美術協會), the exhibition includes 28 works of significant impact, incorporating bold techniques such as glass manipulation and the introduction of soft pigmented watercolors, electric light, transparency, and shadow, which the artist explores in this project.

According to her friend and curator, Wong Ka Long (黃家龍), «ceramics, ink, glass, and bronze, in her hands, are not fixed concepts but mediums that carry light, shadow, and feminine charm. The outlines of Western-style frames seem to emerge from the mist; after being filled with Eastern porcelain clay, it is as if nurtured by body warmth for hundreds of years. Between clarity and blur, Leong Sin Teng offers us the ‘power of haziness’ , allowing materialized moments to leave tangible traces».

«‘Flowers in the mirror, moon on the water—they are visible yet untouchable’, a classic Chinese imagery that symbolizes ‘beautiful yet illusory things’. However, from the female perspective of this exhibition, its connotation has been extended to ‘genuine emotions beneath illusory superficiality’ — much like how women perceive beauty», the curator considers, himself also an artist and sculptor. In his opinion, Leong Sin Teng’s works reveal another reality: the fluid and seamless integration of traditional Chinese cultural elements with Western-style framing, igniting «brilliant sparks of cultural collision between the East and the West».

Leong Sin Teng was born in Macau, having a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and a master’s degree in Public Art from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. She went on to receive a PhD in Education at the City University of Macau. In recent years, she has been focusing on creation and research of sculpture, public art and contemporary art, while teaching at the School of Art and Design of Guangzhou College of Commerce.

Her works have been collected by the Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou City, and the Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, among others. She was one of the members of the 2024 China National Arts Foundation‘s Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area Youth Sculpture Talent Training Project. She has also taken on several other roles, including that of Deputy Secretary-General of the Federation of Associations of Cultural Sectors of Macau. She is Vice-Director of the Macau Arts Association, Director of the Macau Youth Art Association and Supervisory Director of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts’ Macao Alumni Association.

Her father is a famous sculptor in Macau, author of the “Mazu Statue” in Coloane, and the “Twelve Zodiac Signs” in Taipa. Leong Sin Teng’s passion for the arts has been influenced by him since her childhood.

The artworks will be on display until May 16th, 2026.