Contemporary life is a living tapestry of global ties, intertwined in a past that still echoes.

Wie-yi T. Lauw examines the present, woven with unfinished, fragile and fluid identities, and its potential for transformation.  T. Lauw’s works are testimonies of a personal, shaped by the Asian diaspora in Europe and sprouting from that, a universal preoccupation with existential themes. They examine the various connotations of the ‘foreign’ that arise from colonial powers, migration and their histories. Through the use of exotic fragments, everyday symbols and clichés, T. Lauw critically scrutinises the domination of colonial mindsets over colonized cultures. The fascination with the exotic has a long history, and this gaze stems from a deeply rooted hierarchical understanding of the „foreign“ and the „other“.