Lap-See Lam’s solo exhibition “192 Wing Lok Street” will be on view at the Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria.
“Lap-See Lam’s work renders the architecture of diaspora as a site of spectral recursion, spaces and figures that flicker between presence and erasure, simulation and memory. Working with 3D scanning, animation, sculpture, and installation, she explores how cultural identity is mediated through reproduction, myth, and spatial displacement. Her recurring motif of the Chinese restaurant, often reconstructed digitally from scans of now defunct interiors, becomes less a literal location than a haunted vessel, one that carries sedimented histories of migration, labour, and longing. Lap-See Lam reveals how these spaces become persistant and unstable, how they transform into glitching archives, and provisional containers for affect, inheritance, and representation. “—Vienna Secession
Curator: Haris Giannouras
Venue: Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria (Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Wien, Austria)
Image courtesy of artist, and Cirva / Bérangère Huguet.