Artist Lau Ming‑hang is both an experienced theatre lighting designer and a paper artist. He has created numerous pop‑up books and paper sculptures, bringing them onto the stage so that books are transformed into story theatres under theatrical lighting.

In this event, he will share how he weaves light and shadow into his paper art practice, as well as the creative journey behind his works in the current exhibition “Beyond the Ordinary – Contemporary Book Art”!

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⤵ About the Speaker

Lau Ming-hang is a creator of pop-up book story theatres, a paper art artist and an experienced theatre lighting designer. For over two decades, he has created numerous pop-up book story theatres, blending pop-up paper art and the aesthetics of theatre performance.

In 2024, Lau won the Best Lighting Design award at the Hong Kong Drama Awards for the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre’s production of Moscow Express. In 2019 and 2023, he curated the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (Hong Kong Pavillion) and organised exhibition events in Prague. Lau’s paper-cutting artworks have been showcased in a number of exhibitions, such as Nian Nian (Solo Exhibition) at the Hsinchu Railway Art Village in Taiwan and TST Story at Dooor art space in the YMCA of Hong Kong.

RSVP: Light and Shadow: Artist Sharing by LAU Ming-hang

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