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	<title>Hou Lam Tsui </title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Overview</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:26:48 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hou Lam Tsui </dc:creator>

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Trichiasis (2026)

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Still you remain (2026)
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	Girl’s Shit: Trichiasis (2026)&#38;nbsp;
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	Reaching This Point is the Limit (2025)&#38;nbsp;

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	Dear Breeze: Passing (2025)

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Hangnail (2024)

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	GOLDEN☆BEST BEFORE THIS DATE (2022; 2024)

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	Dear Breeze (2025)

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	Rabu Rabu (2023)


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	The Eligibility to Cry (2024)

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	Magic Soap &#38;amp; Crystal Foam (2023)

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	Blind Curve (2022)

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	Magic Soap&#38;nbsp;(2023)

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	Hard Tongue on Pillow (2021)
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	Sticky Sweet Iterations&#38;nbsp;(2021)
 
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		<title>Trichiasis - exhibition</title>
				
		<link>https://houlamtsui.com/Trichiasis-exhibition</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:02:54 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hou Lam Tsui </dc:creator>

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TrichiasisSolo exhibition at Hart Haus
With support from the&#38;nbsp;Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC)

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Photos: Studio Lights On &#38;amp; Felix SC Wong.&#38;nbsp;

Trichiasis, a solo exhibition by Hou Lam Tsui, employs medical terminology to describe the condition where eyelashes grow inward, deviating from their natural trajectory, thereby dissecting the beauty of failure. Such aesthetics of failure lies in a refusal to acquiesce to the dominant logics of power and discipline. This “wrong way” growth is reimagined here as a radical force, one that challenges norms, orders, and systemic power from feminist and queer perspectives. In Glitch Feminism, Legacy Russell reclaims the “glitch” not as a malfunction, but as a subversive and powerful rupture. Similarly, as Jack Halberstam explores in The Queer Art of Failure, there is something profoundly queer about failure, “failing is what queer have always done exceptionally well.” Departing from her continuous critical exploration of gender politics, feminine affects, and the media narratives, Hou Lam Tsui continues her exploration of the feminine experience through bodily states—as seen in earlier works employing pathologies like “geographic tongue” (Hard Tongue on Pillow, 2021) and “hangnail” (Hangnail, 2024). This exhibition sheds light on the notions of love and desire, revealing how women gain agency through fantasy—empowering themselves to transform from objects of desire into subjects who boldly express their own longings.



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		<title>Girl’s Shit: Trichiasis</title>
				
		<link>https://houlamtsui.com/Girl-s-Shit-Trichiasis</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:25:57 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hou Lam Tsui </dc:creator>

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Girl’s Shit: Trichiasis
2026Two-channel video, UHD, stereo sound
15’28”


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A film by Hou Lam Tsui&#38;nbsp;

Voice
Julie May

Music
Sky Kung3D AnimationJonathan Kan


Script Editing
Tsz Wai PunCoşkun GüçlüFull version available upon request.
*
Girl’s Shit: Trichiasis, which spans archival materials, 35mm photographs, Super 8 footage, and 3D animation to revisit the narrative structures of multiple classic works. Heroines in fictional works are often punished with a tragic ending, frequently resulting in death. Deconstructing these narratives, the artist transforms them by offering a queer reading in the video essay that reimagines a possible ending beyond a Madonna-martyr sacrifice. 
This film also follows girls who fantasise—from yume joshi (dreaming girls) imagining interactions and even romance with fictional characters and idols, to fujoshi (rotten girls) who immerse themselves in boys’ love (BL) content—investigating how women use fantasy to escape a patriarchal and heteronormative reality. The female fantasy seeks to loosen the constraints of normalcy and social values through a feminine community that deviates from the canon. Such fantasy can be cruel: (female) readers have been accused of reading the “wrong book,” and fanfiction writers have been arrested for publishing works depicting homosexual romantic relationships. Nonetheless, through the bonding of sisterhood and queer reading, fantasy helps to redefine female identity, escape societal norms, and transform failure into resilience. Through narratives of desire, love, hope, and resistance, this film reinterprets so-called “failure” as an empowering refusal of imposed order.


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		<title>Dear Breeze</title>
				
		<link>https://houlamtsui.com/Dear-Breeze</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:55:55 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hou Lam Tsui </dc:creator>

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Dear Breeze
2025
9’33” 
Single-channel video, 4K, with sound


 



Cast
Terrence Cheung

Narrator
Hayley Wu

Camera
Florence Tan

Super 8 Footage
Hou Lam Tsui

Editing
Hou Lam Tsui

Music and Audio Design
Sky Kung

Editorial Support
Tsz Wai Pun, Coşkun Güçlü

Written and directed by Hou Lam Tsui

Full version available upon request.


*Dear Breeze follows a young woman drifting through the monotony of summer, trapped between a sense of idleness and the desire to depart. She is unable to leave, yet uncertain where she could go, suspended in a journey that never truly begins. Composed through Super 8 film, digital video, and photographic collage, the work employs loose reenactment to reimagine and deconstruct the visual language of vintage airline advertisements from East Asia. Blurring the lines between reality and fiction, memory with fantasy, the film dissects appropriated imagery of commercials and vintage ephemera, revealing how tropes of romantic travel,&#38;nbsp; femininity, and consumer desires are constructed and perpetuated.Previously exhibited at The Limit is the Turbulent Skies, Museum of National Taipei University of Education (MoNTUE), Taiwan.


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		<title>Dear Breeze: Passing</title>
				
		<link>https://houlamtsui.com/Dear-Breeze-Passing</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:14:57 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hou Lam Tsui </dc:creator>

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Dear Breeze: Passing
2025Three-channel video installation with printed banners
Dimension variable

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In this two-part installation, the single-channel video Dear Breeze follows a narrative structure, centering on a young woman in the summer heat, trapped between a sense of idleness and the desire to depart. She is unable to leave, yet wishes she could go, suspended in a journey that never truly begins. Composed through Super 8 film, digital video, and photographic collage, the work reconstructs the visual language of airline and tourist advertisements. Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, memory and projection, the film examines how femininity and consumer desire are constructed and sustained. These aesthetic codes, she suggests, are not neutral; they operate within a system of cosmopolitan capitalism that commodifies longing itself.

Dear Breeze: Passing extends this inquiry into a spatial constellation of three-channel video and large-scale printed images, situated within the passageways of airports, stations, or shopping arcades. Advertising surfaces are saturated with projections of freedom, happiness, and romance, while the female body is repeatedly cast as a symbol of departure, a product of leisure, a vessel of desire. The spatial displacement turns these familiar images into how our perceptions, identities, and desires are formatted and internalized by these visual scripts. Rather than narrating flight directly, the work turns toward the affective infrastructure of travel itself: how we are guided, moved, and shaped by visual codes. The promise of departure becomes a mirror for desire, where vision slips between fantasy and fatigue, and travel is no longer a choice but a condition of being watched.</description>
		
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		<title>Reaching This Point is the Limit</title>
				
		<link>https://houlamtsui.com/Reaching-This-Point-is-the-Limit</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:33:49 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hou Lam Tsui </dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://houlamtsui.com/Reaching-This-Point-is-the-Limit</guid>

		<description>

Reaching This Point is the Limit
2025Lecture performanceCommissioned by Videotage (Hong Kong)
Performers: Wong Pak Hang &#38;amp; Hou Lam Tsui


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Photos: Eric Hong. Courtesy of Art Central.


Departing from their experience of wandering through a Sham Shui Po shopping mall filled with old CCD cameras and DV camcorders, the artists revisit their personal sticky memories through outdated, malfunctioning, and low-pixel electronic devices. They attempt to piece together fragments of the past, present, and future while tracing the idea of death amid the virtual, digital dimension, rethinking the impossibility of nostalgia.
This performance was conducted in both Cantonese and English editions. Full video documentation of the performance is available upon request.&#38;nbsp;
Previously performed at Videotage (Hong Kong) and Art Central 2025 (Hong Kong).&#38;nbsp;</description>
		
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		<title>The Eligibility to Cry</title>
				
		<link>https://houlamtsui.com/The-Eligibility-to-Cry</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:39:43 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hou Lam Tsui </dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://houlamtsui.com/The-Eligibility-to-Cry</guid>

		<description>

The Eligibility to Cry
2024PerformanceCommissioned by Tai Kwun Contemporary and HICCUP
Performers: Florence Lam and Hou Lam Tsui

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Photos: Zoey Chan.

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		<title>Hangnail - exhibition</title>
				
		<link>https://houlamtsui.com/Hangnail-exhibition</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:12:12 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hou Lam Tsui </dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://houlamtsui.com/Hangnail-exhibition</guid>

		<description>

Hangnail
2024Single-channel video with sound, HD
6’53”



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Stills from Hangnail.

Watch the excerpt here. Full version available upon request.

you dress me up series&#38;nbsp;
2023-onging
Anime magical girl merch-toys, vintage candle holder, hot-process soap, faux pearls, beads, artificial hair, loose felt, mini ribbon rose 

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Platter series
&#38;nbsp;
2024Stainless steel trays, hot-process soap, fragrance






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Reveal
2024
Hot-process soap, marble balls

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Crybaby2024
Hot-process soap, fragrance



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All works are part of the solo exhibition Hangnail.

A hangnail—a jagged piece of skin around the side of a fingernail—can be negligible or perplexing and even throbbing when one rips it off. The pain of pulling a hangnail may seem rather insignificant, but the unsettling, haunting annoyance of a hangnail that never truly goes away troubles people. The direct translation of hangnail into Chinese would be “inverse pulling”. This (mis)translation can perhaps offer a window to imagine the idea of “inverse pulling” as a radical force going against the norm, the order, and the system of power from feminist and queer perspectives.&#38;nbsp;This year’s M.F.A. Graduation Exhibition, titled Hangnail, presents Hou Lam Tsui’s new works that encompass sculpture, installation, and moving-image. Tsui is interested in the often rigid media representation of the feminine, and how consumer desires shape affects, the way we perceive love and even identities.&#38;nbsp;This exhibition is shaped to be an incredibly intimate, anachronistic space filled with small sculptures and a moving image piece that appears both familiar and strange to the audience.
Central to numerous sculptural works in the exhibition is the use of soap, alongside found magical girl toys, vintage household objects, artificial hair, and ornaments perceived stereotypically feminine. Soap has been a recurring material in Tsui’s practice—she is fascinated by its precarity, fragility as well as everyday banality. Soap symbolises society’s obsessive pursuit of cleanliness and the association of cleanliness, and even purity, with women. Tsui’s sculptures delve into the concept of the “monstrous feminine” and shed light on the idea of abject by juxtaposing misshapen soap and out-of-place hair as seen in her ongoing series you dress me up. Another work Crybaby features teardrops in cast soap which the artist rethinks the radicalness of tears and the imagery portraying the sad girl in media that often ends up fetishising and deprecating feminine sorrow.&#38;nbsp; 
Premiered at this graduation exhibition, is the latest moving-image work Hangnail which spans film photographs, scanned images of pages and book covers, 3D animation, and 2D animation. The work critically explores the fetishisation and romanticisation of feminine death, delving deep into the complex legacy of fictional heroines across various art forms and within the digital realm. It exposes the pervasive occurrence of the deaths of young girls and rethinks the unrealistic portrayals perpetuated by late male literary and artistic figures. The artist examines society’s fixation on the concept of “reality” and its perception of “truths” and how the dominant systems of power have historically exploited the concept of “fictionality” to fulfil fantasies and fetishisations.
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		<title>Hangnail - video</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:44:10 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hou Lam Tsui </dc:creator>

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Hangnail
2024
6’53” 
Single-channel video, HD, with sound

 



Written and created by 
Hou Lam Tsui 

Music &#38;amp; Sound Design
Sky Kung 

3D Animation
Zhang Riwen

2D Animation
Hou Lam Tsui 
Florence Yuk-ki Lee

Voice
Hayley Wu

Editorial Support
Tsz Wai Pun

Full version available upon request.
*Spanning film photographs, scanned images of pages and book covers, 3D animation, and 2D animation, Hangnail critically explores the fetishisation and romanticisation of feminine death, delving deep into the complex legacy of fictional heroines across various art forms and within the digital realm. The work exposes the pervasive occurrence of the deaths of young girls and rethinks the unrealistic portrayals perpetuated by late male literary and artistic figures. The artist examines society’s fixation on the concept of “reality” and its perception of “truths” and how the dominant systems of power have historically exploited the concept of “fictionality” to fulfil fantasies and fetishisations.


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Official Selections:
 
Beijing International Short Film Festival (China)
CUT! Experimental Film Festival (Macau)


Proyector Video Art Festival (Spain)[Best Student Experimental Award] Tirana International Film Festival (Albania)
Videoex Festival (Switzerland)
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		<title>GOLDEN☆BEST BEFORE THIS DATE - Times </title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:59:56 +0000</pubDate>

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GOLDEN☆BEST BEFORE THIS DATE
2022, 2024Digital print on woodfree paper, cardboard boxSize variable
Exhibition at Guangdong Times Museum, as part of the exhibition Follow the Feeling.
 
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Installation views of GOLDEN☆BEST BEFORE THIS DATE. Photos: HOMER Studio. Courtesy of Guangdong Times Museum.&#38;nbsp;

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