Jess Lau Ching-Wa
HONG KONG
Tiny, charcoal-gray human figures shuffle toward the center of a white landscape from all directions of a three-meter-wide screen. In the top left corner, the hands of an analog clock sweep forward relentlessly as these figures gather in the void. Seconds after the space is filled, an invisible force erases the figures, returning the surface to its original state. This stop-motion animation by Jess Lau Ching-Wa, (2021), was made during a bleak period of social isolation in Hong Kong. In response to the pandemic and nascent political restrictions, Lau sought to reassure a dispirited public by invoking a sense of togetherness and reaffirming our
