FORM presents London-based artist Lucinda Chua's biggest headline show to date at the ICA on May 9, following the announcement of her debut solo album *YIAN*, out March 24 via 4AD.

If Chua’s 2022 release "Golden," written from the perspective of her younger self, was the meditative prelude to the world of *YIAN*, then her new single “Echo” places us firmly in its first chapter. A pop song about ancestral trauma, “Echo” is the antihero’s journey, walking the line between respect for the past and the freedom to carve out a new future. (“I won’t carry your shame / Won’t be your echo again… I couldn’t be anyone else / I look to you, I see myself”). Chua delivers with her uniquely intimate, yet otherworldly sound in this self-produced and engineered song, capturing sensuous echoing harmonies and delicate soul-infused piano.

Following intensive studies in Chinese dance forms, Chua joined forces with film director Jade Ang Jackman and movement director Chantel Foo to create the visual for “Echo”; Chua’s take on a choreographed pop MV. The short film is a moving and innovative homage to Chinese fan dance and martial arts; an internal journey through the shifting seasons of emotional weather. Grounded by a stone circle, Chua dances with her handmade Chinese silk fans as the mood shifts from thorny rose garden to blizzard. “Sometimes I think we are all just footprints in the snow,” Chua says.

The release follows her sold-out show at London's Purcell Room and her appearance at Pitchfork London opening for William Basinski last year.

Accessibility info at ica.art/lucinda-chua

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