Lap-See Lam 林立施
Bamboo Palace, Revisited /Blindspot Gallery /Hong Kong /Mar 23 – May 2, 2026 / With Bamboo Palace, Revisited, the gallery space at Blindspot has been transformed into a labyrinth in which visitors can almost lose themselves, or at least lose their usual benchmarks. This arrangement perfectly aligns with Lap-See Lam’s work and allows us to journey with her through the meanders of memory and the collective history of Hong Kong. Born in Stockholm as a second-generation immigrant, the artist has spent nearly a decade exploring the culture of the Hong Kong diaspora, focusing in particular on the transformations and glitches that occur through spatiotemporal displacement. Her research delves into her own family history, which she weaves together with the history of the territory through myths, craftsmanship and techniques. This is how she came to work with shadow play, an art form that travelled from Europe to China in the 17th century. More recently, since her participation in the Nordic Pavilion in Venice in 2024, she has been tracing the fate of a Chinese ship built …

