Jess LAU Ching-wa (b.1991, Hong Kong) is a moving image artist working in video, animation, and installation. Her practice centres on narrative fragmentation, embodied memory, and the durational nature of artistic labour, exploring the porous boundary between fiction and reality through layered manual processes that accumulate traces of the body and emotion.

Time operates as both theme and method in Lau’s work, images are built, dismantled, and rebuilt through repetitive gestures that insist on media art’s warmth and materiality rather than digital detachment. Her works evoke an intimate temporality where memory unfolds slowly in fragments, and where the labour of image-making becomes visible, connecting personal experience with collective urban memory.

Lau’s work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica (Austria), Taipei Fine Art Museum (Taiwan), Two Temple Place (London), Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing), Animatou International Animation Festival (Switzerland), Tai Kwun Contemporary and West Kowloon Cultural District (Hong Kong), Ben Brown Gallery (Hong Kong), and IFVA Festival. In 2025, she was awarded the TERAYAMA Shuji Prize at the 39th Image Forum Festival (Japan).
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She currently lives and works between Hong Kong and Taipei.