Lap-See Lam: Floating Sea Palace
Presented by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, TorontoSeptember 21 - March 02
Lap-See Lam creates mythical video installations that draw on traditional storytelling forms such as Cantonese opera and shadow play puppetry. Her work takes a magic realist approach, creating alternative representations of Chinoiserie as defined by imperialist history, while simultaneously reflecting on her own family history of migration from Hong Kong to Sweden, to both claim and complicate cultural heritage. This exhibition, her first in Canada, presents her newest film, Floating Sea...
[more+]Lap-See Lam creates mythical video installations that draw on traditional storytelling forms such as Cantonese opera and shadow play puppetry. Her work takes a magic realist approach, creating alternative representations of Chinoiserie as defined by imperialist history, while simultaneously reflecting on her own family history of migration from Hong Kong to Sweden, to both claim and complicate cultural heritage. This exhibition, her first in Canada, presents her newest film, Floating Sea Palace (2024), in which Lam draws on the folklore tale of Lo Ting, a mythical human-fish hybrid who is believed to be the ancestor of the Hong Kong people. The film is presented within an immersive environment built of bamboo scaffolding, which has been used for centuries as an integral material in the celebrated art form of Cantonese operas. Floating Sea Palace reflects on transformation, translation, and the longing to return to an ever-shifting home that remains out of reach.
Floating Sea Palace is co-commissioned by The Vega Foundation, Studio Voltaire, and The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. Produced in partnership with Moderna Museet. Floating Sea Palace is concurrently on view at Studio Voltaire in London from September 18 to December 15, 2024.
The exhibition at The Power Plant is organized and developed in partnership with The Vega Foundation. The Vega Foundation provides critical support for artists’ film and video through meaningful investments in the production of ambitious new work, collaborations with Canadian and international institutions, and the stewardship of a growing collection. For more information, visit thevegafoundation.com.
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Admission
Free
Location
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery 
400 Queen St E, Toronto, ON M5J 2G8
