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Fried bananas and family lore: a Swedish-Chinese art story
Lam turns Swedish-Chinese restaurant culture and digital defects into haunting works about migration, memory and generational loss.
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From pirate dreams to public text, a restless creative voice arrives in the city
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‘We didn’t play with toys, we played with jewels’: meet the man born for the rostrum
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Too shiny, straight, serious, samey: when architecture stops feeling human
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