Wai Ting Loretta Lau was born in British Hong Kong. She worked as a visual arts teacher for 7 years, witnessing big changes since Hong Kong’s handover to China from the UK colonization. In 2018, she established herself in Prague as a political performance artist. Her relocation made her join one of the most recent waves of a diaspora of the post-80’s generation. She found NGO DEI from May 2021, Hong Kong association accompanied by a gallery space located in Prague.

Her first performance on 4th June 2019 entitled “Letter to my people” in DOX – Centre For Contemporary Art, that she was shaved as a symbol of an impending prison sentence. Four months later, on 10th October, she presented a public art performance – ‘Memory Eraser’ in the National Theater in Prague, she was in the custody of a 2 meters white cube for 24 hours. Under the shadow of the pandemic, she started an online performance in March 2020, interviewed and portrayed over 160 people about their perspective on the COVID-19 situation. The piece was displayed in her solo exhibition CONFESSION in the National Technology Library. December 2020, she organized a show named GENOCIDA in the Tibet Open House on World Human Rights Day, to condemn the active genocide create by communist China, as well as any dictatorships in human history. 

Recently, her projects comment with distinctive meditative-poetical methods on politically sensitive topics, spanning from the coronavirus crisis, through actual Hong Kong protests to the role of women in contemporary society. Her works are searching the boundaries between political and personal identities, which are now exhibiting throughout Europe and being collected by auction house Fabiani Arte in Italy. She was also invited to be one of the speakers in Forum 2000 and covered in the magazine Reflex.cz