About

Using archaic artifacts and symbols, Macau born Heidi Lau pulls direct
inspiration from the architecture and tenement houses of her birthplace
that have mostly been demolished or modified beyond recognition. Lau
recreates the histories that have been lost through time, simultaneously
deconstructing and rebuilding these models into new hybrid forms. She pulls
from Taoist mythology and cultural superstitions as essential source material,
through which she explores a symbiosis between the grotesque and the
beautiful, the real and the imagined-- myths, ruins, and their hauntology.
Lau presents a …