1. Ways of Running & Embracing
2. Shimmering Water May Burn the Tree
3. Stay Away From Watercourses
7. Escape from the Traps Given by Angels
Lau Sze Man
Duo exhibition with Ailsa WONG
April 2023 @Floating Projects
不是我們的城市
Hi Our City
Pencil, marker, correction pen, ball pen and acrylic on paper
52.5 x 43cm
2022
雲朵壓扁草地
Cloud Squashes the Grassland
Oil pastel, marker, spray, ball pen, acrylic and wallpaper on acrylic and paper
73 x 83cm
2022
Cloud Squashes the Grassland
Oil pastel, marker, spray, ball pen, acrylic and wallpaper on acrylic and paper
73 x 83cm
2022
卡沙
Car Stuck
Masking Tape, pencil, colour pencil, marker, ball pen and acrylic on paper
40 x 29.7cm
2022
綠洲
Oasis
Stamp, ball pen, marker and acrylic on paper
Size Variable
2022
坐下的大樹
The Sitting Tree
Ball pen, pencil and acrylic on paper
24.5 x 20.3cm
2022
硬翅膀（柔軟的負空間）
Hard Wings（Soft Negative Space）
Marker, pencil, ball pen, acrylic and oil on aluminum plate
91.5 x 93cm
2023
惡夢的程度
The Extent of Nightmare
Single channel video
1’40”
2023
温暖的燈光
Warm Light
Lamp stand, fishnet
Size Variable
2023
Synopsis:
Ways of Running and Embracing is a joint exhibition by Lau Sze Man and Ailsa Wong featuring their paintings and video works. The title of the exhibition comes from a book by Eduardo Galeano, a Uruguayan writer who is known for his episodic form of writing, in which he describes writing as his way of striking out and embracing. Lau and Wong believe that art is not just a piece of text or commentary based on the world. Rather, it can become part of the beings in the world, and a way to run and embrace the world. In the creation process that is non-research-based yet introspective, a narrative structure is almost non-existent. To verify and communicate emotions, images were extracted from fragmented life experiences, as meanings disappeared and were re-established repeatedly.
Fragmented images are ridded of a strong narrative, leaving only recurring scenes: First, the split second of a yawn; second, the passing of a mirror on the street; third, in a dream. Pieces of impulses. ”
To resist the dreariness of the one-dimensional world, searching for myth-like enlightenments in a life where you cannot grasp the focal point. Vague, fable-like ballads that lack the keynote, separate and reconnect over and over again like a pendulum in the flat dimension.”
The birthplace is a short place, whereas raindrops in Taipei are long. Rain that goes straight down or sideways. Clouds are heavier than the grassland. Clichés that kept turning up in the days.”
Reaching freedom in passion and frustration.”
Translation: Charlotte Waying Lee
散碎的畫面抹去強烈的敘事，只留下反覆出現的意象：第一次在打哈欠那一秒，第二次是在街上一面擦身而過的鏡，第三次在夢中。零碎的衝動。”
為對抗單向度世界的無聊，在無法指向中心結構的生活中尋找近乎神話般的啟示。語焉不詳的寓言式歌謠缺少了主旨，在扁平的維度中像鐘擺一樣反覆割裂及相連。”
出生地是一個很短的地方，台北的雨水很長。打直或者打橫下的雨。白雲比草地重。不斷在日子裏穿插陳腔濫調。 ”