Helen Lam Hoi-yan: In the folds of wave and time

Description

ESS presents a solo exhibition and public artist sharing of Hong Kong artist Helen Lam Hoi-yan’s current work to culminate her one month residency in Chicago as part of the Wavefront Artist Residency partnership with soundpocket.

Exhibition Gallery Hours: July 25-27, 12-4pm
Artist Sharing: July 27, 12pm
Free and open to the public

Beginning from her perception of the ever-shifting colours of the ocean, Helen is now working on the project “In the folds of wave and time,” which continues her exploration of the traces and distortions that occur between memory and perception. During her residency, while creating images, writings, and drawings, Helen has also collected other people’s memories and field recordings within the Chicago community. She has assembled these materials with those she brought from Hong Kong, weaving the individual memories and traces into a visible scene.

In the exhibition, Helen showcases these materials and invite the audience into a fluid exchange of retrieving memories and perceptions, asking how the shoreline — as a singular yet shared subject — fractures across disparate recollections and interpretations. During the Artist Sharing, she will share how fleeting moments of awareness seep into her practice, how light and the ocean refract perception, and how text and image splice together their fragments.

Helen Lam Hoi-yan is supported by soundpocket’s Artist Support Programme 2024–25.

The Wavefront Artist Residency is in collaboration with soundpocket and funded in part by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council