Lam Tung-pang strolls into Galerie du Monde\u2019s Taipei space with a cheerfulness that belies his fraught journey from Vancouver.<\/p>\n
Fresh off a long-haul flight and overcoming a frantic last-minute visa hurdle, the Hong Kong-born artist is his usual sunny self, his one-time flight phobia now a distant memory.<\/p>\n
His high spirits are mirrored by the bright and lofty design of the space, which the Hong Kong-based gallery opened in 2024. Yet, the exhibition \u2013 titled \u201cEveryone\u2019s Journey Toward Faith is Different\u201d \u2013 is steeped in melancholia, a search for hope in a fractured world.<\/p>\n
A sense of discombobulation begins at the entrance, where texts appear jumbled and flipped over, the word \u201cfaith\u201d is disassembled, and the question \u201cAre you being described by history?\u201d is tantalisingly obscured.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to massage people\u2019s brains as soon as they walk in,\u201d Lam says with a grin, as he strides eagerly toward a giant kinetic sculpture that has turned out just as he envisioned even though it was built remotely in Hong Kong by a film props fabricator.<\/p>\n
Praying Hands<\/em> (2025) is nearly four metres (13ft) high, and is both playful and macabre: Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s famous 1508 symbol of piety magnified manifold, printed onto plywood and cut at the joints into a 23-part, skeletal mobile.<\/p>\n![\"Lam](\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/01\/51d5f15a-6827-43dc-9667-b6ca157475bb_458a69a8.jpg\" "\\"Lam")
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