Lap-See Lam’s solo exhibition “Phantom Banquet” is currently on view at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA.
“Narrated by a disembodied voice, the VR simulation journeys through a disintegrating dining room haunted by spectral figures, drawing on magical realism to conjure the past to the present. Lam’s glitchy tables and chairs — furniture subjected to the digital phenomenon of “generation loss,” or the corruption of data from migration across incompatible software — serve as metaphors for how diaspora transforms culture through time and space. Altogether, Phantom Banquet positions the Westernized Chinese restaurant as a collection of inherited and imposed memory where Hong Kong diasporic identity is reflected and constructed.” —SCAD Museum of Art
Venue: SCAD Museum of Art, USA (601 Turner Blvd., Savannah, Georgia, USA)