“Blended Vision” is a duo-screen video installation. The screen on the left shows a video essay about Lau’s experience of accompanying his father during eye surgery. As the father’s vision gradually becomes disabled, he begins to rely on his daughter’s eyes to see the world, and the roles of caregiver and caretaker are reversed. In the series of events from the discovery of the disease to examination, surgery, and recovery, the emotional changes between father and daughter constantly overlap and stagger, and are connected by an invisible line. The video on the right, Lau uses a camera lens to imitate the blurred vision from the eyes of her father, and returns to the places he passes by every day, the park near their home, the same teahouse, the same bus route, the same way home… to reproduce those things that are seen repeatedly in the scenery.

《視點融疊》為一組雙畫面錄像裝置，左方畫面播放着一部錄像文章，講述了劉氏陪伴父親面對眼疾的經歷。當父親的視力逐漸失能，兩人之間照顧者與被照顧者的角色也因而倒轉。從發現疾病，到檢查、手術到康復這一連串事件中，父女的情感的變化不斷重疊又錯開。右方畫面，劉氏則以紗布包裹攝影鏡頭模擬父親模糊的視力，並重返他每日行經的地點，家裡附近的公園，同一家茶樓，同一班公車，同一條回家的路⋯⋯再現那些重複被看見的風景。

Born in Hong Kong in 1991, Jess gained her BA (Honours) in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in 2014. Jess’ work applies themes such as narrative fragments, body memory and focus on iterative manual processes and the aggregation of time. Jess’ work involves a wide range of media – videos, animation, installation – it explores the uniqueness and the malleability of each different medium, for example, outlining the fiction and reality with stop-motion animation. Her iconic works are created through the accumulation of labour and time. The material is constantly reorganised, shaped and dismantled in the world of video, connecting and extending with the memory and imagination of the city as well as the individual self. At the same time, her works aim to break the cold impression of media art, to portray the temperature of people, the traces left by her body, and to emphasise the process of creation and imaging. 

Jess’ artworks have been exhibited and screened internationally in: Ars Electronica, Austria, Animatou – International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, Image Forum Festival 2022, Japan, Two Temple Place, London, IFVA Media Art Festival, Hong Kong, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, West Kowloon FreeSpace, Hong Kong and etc. Jess was the selected artist of Tai Kwun Contemporary Artists’ Studio Residency 2020 and awarded the Nanying Prize from Taiwan 2022.