Jamie Lau

Artist Statement

Jamie Lau’s practice uses photography, video, installation and sculpture, to explore ideas concerning mortality. His work often creates a play between light and dark and physical and reflected space to create an anticipatory symbolism. He is interested in the passage towards a ‘decisive moment’ within narratives, and the drama and uncertainty of what is to follow, concerned with the unresolved period of specific space and time, where events are yet to fully conclude. Inspired by stories found through literature, religion, personal history and the media, his working process involves an allegorical reworking of this source material. To date passages from Dantes’s Inferno, the third day of Genesis, the rescue of the Chilean Miners and the earthquake destruction of Christchurch’s Cathedral have been key triggers for Lau’s work.