Lap-See Lam is a Stockholm-based artist whose animation, films, virtual reality, and sculptural works consider how mythology, popular culture, and fiction can both define and alter perceptions of the self and cultural belonging. This exhibition features Lam’s immersive video installation Tales of the Altersea (2023), a work inspired by the ruins of a dragon-shaped ship that Lam could see from her studio window in art school. In 1990 the ship sailed from Shanghai to Gothenburg, Sweden, with the intention of serving Chinese food to European customers across ports in the North and Baltic Seas. The gastronomic venture didn't go as its owner had hoped, and the seafaring restaurant would eventually be abandoned. The ruins of this historic vessel serve as a jumping-off point for Lam’s dreamlike story of loss, memory, and resilience.
