Background
Venus Lau (Sau Yee) is a curator and writer based in Hong Kong. After working in Beijing as an art writer and project curator, she now works actively in various cultural spheres across greater China, pursuing multidisciplinary experimentation with potential and emergent cultural productions in the region. Recent exhibition projects include The Border Show, Writing off the Wall, and a solo exhibition of work by Su Wenxiang. Beyond contemporary art, Venus Lau also engages in criticism on local cinematic and literary work and produces literary texts. She is currently researching topics including the Pearl River Delta as cultural rhetoric, subalterns and implosion in representation of triads in Hong Kong cinema and their relationship to the mythical monster Lu Ting, scrambled eggs as an object of desire in Hong Kong cinematic language, and empire and jianghu in the cultural geographies of Chinese contemporary art.