Broken Form, Unbroken Faith : In conversation with Brynn Gordon at ArtAsiaPacific, Lam discusses his recently concluded solo exhibition at gdm Taipei, “Everyone’s journey toward faith is different”, which embodied his inquiry into the dynamics of tradition, displacement, and resilience.
“It is always the situation that ‘construction’ and ‘deconstruction’ are a pair of forces. I always have them in my work, but they have become increasingly intense recently.” – Lam Tung Pang
Transplanted creatives often describe leaving home as a process of taking step after step away from the familiar into an unknown landscape, until, looking back, they realize how far they have journeyed. In his inaugural solo exhibition at gdm Taipei, “Everyone’s journey toward faith is different,” Lam Tung Pang used this process of gradual removal as a framework to interrogate his formative experiences in Hong Kong, and to contemplate his future in Vancouver from a position of geographical and psychological distance following his emigration to Canada in 2022.
Far from only being a reflection on sorrow or nostalgia, Lam’s new period of “faith” presents a consideration of deconstruction as a driver for constructive experimentation with new techniques, subjects, and approaches to pre-established, canonical, and personal artistic traditions. This exhibition invited viewers on a sojourn through a landscape of chaos and hope, located somewhere between Revelstoke and the Fuchun Mountains.
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