Beth Lau

Born 1989 in Hong Kong
Lives and works in London

When I was little, my mum used to tell me that if I kept rubbing my eyes I would go blind. I was scared, so I started to learn Braille before I go blind one day.

My interests are tactile language, its non-accessibility in communication and human perception during a haptic experience. In the realm of haptic, which constituted by simultaneous visual and tactile experience, pulsates a language of equality between the subject and object. Through braille-to-text/text-to-braille translation, embossing braille images and performances; my work invites viewer's proximity through a minimalist practice, also investigating the aesthetics and notion of touch, the tension between heterogeneous ways of bodily function and individual surfaces.

I see touching as an intimate gesture, because you have to be close enough to feel me; touching is also amorous, because to caress, is to be caressed.

2008-12 BA (Hons) Art Practice, Goldsmiths College, University of London