HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity (HKSC) is honoured to present the solo exhibition Folds, Wrinkles and Crevices of the Everyday by transdisciplinary artist and scholar, Linda Chiu-han Lai.

History is the study of the past. Populated by countless people, objects and incidents, the vastness of the past exceeds any individual imagination. Rather than focusing on major historical events that affect millions of people, such as those involving nations, ethnicities, or wars, transdisciplinary artist Linda Chiu-han Lai pays close attention to the histories of everyday life, for instance the minute details of her house-moving experience or the memoir for old objects, the “small anecdotes” of everyday life that make up most of this immense past.

Everyday life is not merely the focus of Lai’s creative interest but also the raw material for her work. Daily objects are ubiquitous across Lai’s oeuvre, especially the toys that are present throughout this exhibition, lending a sense of spontaneity and contingency to her works. Another key material common to her pratice consists of film and video fragments, which have an inherent dimension of time. Many of these fragments are drawn from Lai’s ever-growing audiovisual archive. The real or imagined daily moments captured in these clips are epitomes of the past preserved and re-presented through moving images. Regardless of material and medium, Lai reorders and recontexualizes them to highlight the depth and multiplicity of the past, unravelling the hidden connections between seemingly unrelated things.

Folds, Wrinkles and Crevices of the Everyday is a constellation of temporal points, lines, and planes than Lai excavates from the fissures between vastly different time scales

Dedicated to nurturing the next generation in the creative and cultural industries, HKSC places great emphasis on cultivating a diverse and vibrant artistic environment. The exhibition, along with its rich array of ring events, is reserved in part for our students and faculty, while also being open to the public for shared appreciation. 

Venue
Gallery, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, 135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Artist
Linda Chiu-han Lai

Exhibition Dates
October 18 – November 22, 2025

Gallery Hours
Monday – Sunday | 12 – 8 PM

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Contact
artscentre@creativehk.edu.hk

About Artist

Hong Kong-based transdisciplinary artist and scholar Linda Chiu-han Lai is renowned for her pioneering work in intermedia arts and media archaeology. Central to Lai’s works is her historiographic experiments, which she realizes through critical narrativity and the questioning of genealogical origins. Grounded in a feminist sensibility, she integrates Critical Theory (conceptual lens), visual ethnography (method) and new materialism (philosophical speculation) to conceptually extend her PhD training in Cinema Studies through her creative practice. To her, practice or action comes before theorization. Lai is the founder of the new media art group Writing Machine Collective (2004-) and the participatory art initiative The Floating Projects (2015-). In June 2023, she retired from her 25-year full-time faculty work at the School of Creative Media, the City University of Hong Kong, and has remained an active researcher and artist.

(Text and images courtesy of HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity (HKSC) )