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The exhibition will continue a cycle of works inspired by the real setting of the ‘Sea Palace’, a three-storey floating Chinese restaurant in the shape of a dragon. The ‘Sea Palace’ was commissioned in the 1990s, sailing from Shanghai to Europe and later docking at Dreamers’ Quay in Gothenburg. Facing economic challenges and decay, it was eventually repurposed as a haunted funhouse.

For Lam, the ‘Sea Palace’ provides knotty and often dissonant source material to address the translation – and mistranslation – of cultural heritage. The artist’s work to date has traced her own family history …