Wend a Way

Exhibition Opening in the presence of the artist Lau Ching-wa Jess on 11.2.2023 (Sat) at 3:00pm.

Goethe-Institut Hongkong is proud to partner with ifva to present the solo exhibition of the Media Art Category awardees. This year the two parties will present the solo media arts exhibition "Wend a Way" of Jess Lau, the Gold Awardee of the 27th ifva Media Art Category, which reconstructs the memories of the city and moving bodies through a collection of new and old media artworks.

Jess Lau creates moving images through monotonous and repetitive motions to emphasise the relationship between moving images and the motions of bodies. Memories rest in places where stories are unfolded, be it a river, an avenue, a body or even a white wall. Viewers revisit the twisting and chaotic memories through the flowing of images to realise memories are now wending in an unfamiliar gesture, which reshape and reform to connect with the imagined.

LAU CHING-WA JESS

Born in Hong Kong in 1991, Jess gained her BA in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in 2014. Jess' work applies themes such as narrative fragments, body memory and focus on iterative manual processes and the aggregation of time. Jess' work involves a wide range of media and explores the uniqueness and the malleability of each. Jess was the selected artist of Tai Kwun Contemporary Artists' Studio Residency 2020 and awarded the Nanying Prize from Taiwan 2022. Jess is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing from the department of Sinophone Literature, NDHU.