Profile photo: Teresa Leung
Artwork: Wang Tat Lau, "Book of Gloom"

Profile
Wang Tat Lau is a visual artist from Hong Kong who recently moved to Seattle. He holds a Master of Arts in Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and creates works using various media, including ceramics, printmaking, painting, and Chinese calligraphy, exploring themes of intimacy and estrangement. His art reflects contradictions like "intimate yet strange" and "close yet distant," maintaining a sense of "naïveté" in his media and letting uncertainty shape his creations. His recent solo exhibition, Time Borrowed, Space Transited, reflected on identity after a stay in Vietnam. His work examines the intersection of culture and contemporary art, using memories and events as starting points.

Base of Activity: Seattle, USA; Hong Kong
Media Used: Printmaking, "Ephemeral exchanges"

Selected CV:
1. Time Borrowed, Space Transited, A. Farm@Treehouse, Vietnam, 2024
2. Hong Kong Colours in Shodoshima (Setouchi Triennale 2022), Kagawa, Japan, 2022
3. Artist in Residence, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, 2018

Residence Plan
Perhaps these few days of residency are a digressive chapter in my life.
The bookmarks created during this period are works of printmaking, ephemera, and advertisements--excerpts of passages and chapters that serve as commemorations of specific places or events. They act as a medium for connection; having once appeared in Jimbocho, they represent an attempt to imbue the act of reading and the book itself with new layers of meaning.