Lap-See Lam

Lap-See Lam explores questions of representation
and interpretation working both with contemporary technology and traditional references and techniques.

The notion of glitches informs the artist’s visual language, referencing a “generation loss” both in a literal data transfer and an idiomatic inheritance of knowledge throughout family generations.

At the same time formal elements from traditional forms of storytelling such as shadow play, to the décor of Western Chinese restaurants, become analogous for the experience of the Cantonese diaspora.

Lap-See Lam delves into almost magical imaginations of Chinoiserie, defined by imperialist trading, while reflecting on the reality of migration and her own family history, to both claim ownership of and complicate the idea of cultural heritage – a duality that characterises the artist’s mythical installations.