劉清華（1991年生於香港）是一位影像藝術家，其創作根植於高度重複的手工程序，包含逐幀繪製與抹除、重複摹寫、物理拆解及長時度的行為紀錄。透過這些過程，時間、記憶與身體的痕跡得以具體留存。以重複勞動作為測量時間的方式，記錄個人經驗與情感如何在變動的現實景觀中被保存下來。
作品游走於私密與公眾、類比與數位之間。她常採集個人書寫、口述記憶與多元檔案，包含家族舊底片、醫學影像、新聞照片、舊報紙與數位街景地圖，皆被視為不斷被侵蝕與重構的流動場域。透過定格動畫、散文式的影像敘事與音畫分離，其實踐持續探問影像與文字作為記憶載體的不穩定性，並追問在宏大的時間與集體記憶交疊下，個體的感知究竟如何被安置與回應。
作品曾於奧地利林茲電子藝術節、臺北市立美術館、北京中間美術館、倫敦 Two Temple Place、香港大館當代藝術館、西九文化區及香港 Ben Brown Fine Arts 等地展出；並獲頒日本 Image Forum Festival 寺山修司賞（2025）、台灣南瀛獎（2022）及香港 IFVA 獨立短片及影像媒體節金獎（2022）。曾獲選為香港大館當代藝術館駐場藝術家（2020）。
Jess Lau Ching-wa (b. 1991, Hong Kong) is a moving image artist working across video, animation, and installation. Her practice is grounded in repetitive, hand-mediated processes, including frame-by-frame erasure, retracing, physical assembly, and durational recording. Through these methods, time, memory, and bodily traces are made materially present. Treating bodily labor as a unit of temporal measurement, Lau explores how personal experience and emotion are preserved within shifting physical and digital landscapes.
Lau’s work operates at the intersection of the private and the public, the analogue and the digital. She frequently collects personal writings, oral memories, and diverse archives, including family photographic negatives, medical scans, press images, obsolete newspapers, and digital street views, treating them as volatile sites of erosion and reconstruction. Through stop-motion animation, essayistic video narratives, and the separation of image and sound, her practice continually probes the instability of images and words as carriers of memory, reflecting on how individual perception navigates shifting environments and collective history.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Ars Electronica (Austria), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing), Two Temple Place (London), Tai Kwun Contemporary, West Kowloon Cultural District, and Ben Brown Fine Arts (Hong Kong). She was awarded the TERAYAMA Shuji Prize at the Image Forum Festival (2025), the Nanying Award (2022), and the Gold Award at the 27th IFVA (2022). She was an artist-in-residence at Tai Kwun Contemporary (2020).
⁙ Education
2025 Master of Fine Arts in Sinophone Literatures, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
2014 Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
2008 Ist. Mag. Francesco De Sarlo, Lagonegro (Pz), Italy
⁙ Award
2025 Terayama Shuji Prize, The 39th Image Forum Festival, Japan
2022 南瀛獎 Nanying Award, Taiwan
2022 Gold Award, The 27th IFVA, Hong Kong
2019 Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards
2016 First Prize (Children Picture Category), Creative Writing in Chinese, Hong Kong
2015 Silver Award & Best Local Work, The 20th IFVA, Hong Kong
2014 Best of the Show, School of Creative Media Annual Show, Hong Kong
⁙ Residency
2020 Tai Kwun Contemporary’s Residency Programme, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
2017 Arteles Residency Program, Haukijärvi, Finland
2017 Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival, Nagano, Japan
2014 Extreme Environments Program: Antarctica Expedition, City University of Hong Kong
⁙ Solo Exhibition
2026 A Conversation Between Ashes and a Pebble, Up Gallery, Taiwan
2025 From Dust to Light (Duo with Colbie Fung) , Videotage, Hong Kong
2024 Sampler, 80A Gallery, Taiwan
2023 Traces of Time, Xinying Culture Centre, Taiwan
2023 Wend a Way, Goethe-Institut, Hong Kong
2021 The Cave with a Wheeze, McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre
⁙ Group Exhibition /Screening
2026
FELTcinema II, FELTspace, Adelaide
Disable Documentation, Fei Art Museum, Guangzhou
Phantom of the Fountain, Theatreship, London
Still be-life, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong
2025
Wuhan bǎilin Film Festival, Wuhan, China
What Comes to Light is Always Fragile, EASTEAT TOKYO 2025, Japan
Beijing International Short Film Festival, Beijing
Breakdown Playlist, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
The Orbit of Hope, WMA, Hong Kong
Experimental Panorama, Theatre Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Art After Hour: Unsettled, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
An Open Ending: TFAM Screening Project, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
Hamburg Chinese Film Festival, Germany
The Pixelated You, Screening programe, Art Basel Hong Kong
2024
Metal Odysseys, “Curatorial Award”, Jimei Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen
"Asobi" Absence Space Nomadic Project, Tainan Arts Festival, Taiwan
non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Taiwan
Cross-Border Film Festival, Italy/Slovenia
ARKIPEL x Videotage: (maybe) somewhere to go, Forum Lenteng, Jakarta, Indonesia
NATURE: A PERCEPTION, HART Haus, Hong Kong
2023
Keep Up the Good Fun, Ink Asia, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Living Togetherness, 2023 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (TIVA), Taiwan
Phantom Horizons, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
State-less, A Two Temple Place & Kakilang Exhibition, London, UK
Diachronic Echoes, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity Gallery, Hong Kong
after/party, Supper House, Singapore
2022
Shall We Play a Game, 480.0, Hong Kong
香港エクスペリメンタル映像特集, Image Forum Festival 2022, Tokyo, Japan
Animatou - International Animation Film Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
Nanying Awards Exhibition, Tainan, Taiwan
Emo Gym, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
2021
Lamma Mia, Public Art Exhibition, Lamma Island, Hong Kong
Art After Hours, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
ZE/RO, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
We Are Our Own Demons, Negative Space, Hong Kong
Inter-island Festival, Hong Kong
In Sync: Music in Motion, Freespace, West Kowloon, Hong Kong
2020
Kowloon City Civil Servants’ Cooperative Building Societies Exhibition, The Mahjong, Hong Kong
The Translucent White (Double solo with DOKI MIZUHO), Art Spot Korin, Kyoto, Japan
2019
Return Flight, Floating Projects, Hong Kong & Blender Studios, Melbourne, Australia
Nevertheless, History Continues, Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong
Chasing the City Frames: from Hong Kong to Houston, Rice University, Houston, USA
2018
ifva Carnival – The City is the Cinema, Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong
虛異, Yan-Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Sailing, RED CUBES in Longgang, Shenzhen, China
Passengers' Anecdotes, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2017
Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival 2017, Nagano, Japan
Contemporary Neoclassic – Hong Kong Ink Art, DaGuan Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
HAS-BEEN-THERE, SOHO Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
Simulacrum Living: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, China
2016
Ink+, Ink Asia 2016, HKCEC, Hong Kong
The Age of Experience, Vienna, Austria
2015
POST CITY – Habitats for the 21st Century, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Art Centre, Art Basel 2015, HKCEC, Hong Kong
Pure Art Foundation Annual Show, Chai Wan Mei, Hong Kong
2014
The Writing Machine Collective (5th Edition): TRACING DATA, Hong Kong & Zurich
Extreme Environment: Antarctica Expedition & Exhibition (2013–2014), Hong Kong