Jamie Lau

born london, england, 1978 lives & works in london statement jamie lau’s practice uses photography, video and sculpture, to explore ideas around anxiety, in the form of inertia, impermanence and disorientation. his work often involves re-contextualising landscapes and objects, through intervention or subverting their original meaning, purpose or function. he is interested in the ‘decisive moment’ within narratives, and the drama and uncertainty that belongs to that specific space and time. it’s this uncertainty, and anticipation of what is to come that is inherent within his exploration of anxiety. in his videos respire and tunnel, lau explores anxieties over drowning and falling asleep whilst driving, a theme echoed in his photographic series car crash flowers which documented wilting and decomposing roadside tributes. for the series the dark ages he presents fast food restaurants isolated in black limbo spaces, glowing like beacons in the night. set adrift like ships on a black sea t