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.

 

Lau Sze Man 

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.

 

Ailsa Wong

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.

 

Lau:

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.

 

Wong:

Reaching freedom in passion and frustration.

 

Translation: Charlotte Waying Lee