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 handover to China from the UK colonization. In 2018, she established herself in Prague as a political performance artist. Her relocating made her join one of the most recent waves of diaspora of the post-80’s generation.

Her first performance on 4th June 2019 entitled “Letter to my people” in DOX – Centre For Contemporary Art, which pays tribute to Liu Xiao- bo, the only Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner, and to the deceased students who sacrificed their lives for the brighter future of humanity. The executor shaved her hair as a symbol of impending prison sentence. On 10th October 2019, she presented a public art performance – ‘Memory Eraser’ in the National Theater in Prague.

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.

Speechless

I turn on the TV when the chief executive is going to have a speech. Even I know every single word in her sentences, I can’t understand the meaning and intention. The governors are talking, but not to us. They repeatedly speaking, but they don’t care if we agree with them. They don’t need us to listen. They just want to affirm that we know they are speaking.

Instead of communicating with the people sincerely, the government shoot people with blue liquid without any mercy. Blue is the colour of freedom and trust, but now become the color of hate and fear.

Speechless depicts leaders of Hong Kong, China and the Czech Republic. Using gentian violet to draw and trace over their faces in their rapid speech. The performance is illuminating the cold-hearted and ridiculous decisions made by government officers and politicians in dealing with a public issue.

How helpless the masses people can be, while the government is not willing to change and fail to improve the situation. At the end, citizens could only become strangers of the city.

 

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