Heidi Lau

"In the Macao space, Heidi Lau​, now New York–based, presents rough-textured iridescent ceramics meant to preserve cultural memories of a time before the tiny administrative region became the world’s largest and most garish site of legal gambling. Mountains, hermit dwellings, old cities, vessels, palm leaf fans, ghosts, boats, and traditional zigzag bridges all appear in Apparition, curated by Sio Man Lam. They represent one almost vanished psychic pole of a place once known as the City in the Name of God, whose 600,000 current residents are now overwhelmed by 30 million annual visitors draw ...