The 2023 exhibition 1/X Andy Lau X Art Exhibition brought installation, sculpture, digital art and painting together across eight zones at Freespace in Hong Kong.
The project examined several aspects of Andy Lau’s public career and private creative life rather than functioning as a conventional retrospective of music or film memorabilia.
Eight environments instead of a chronological biography
The exhibition used separate zones to approach performance, identity, memory and family through different media.
Its spatial structure allowed visitors to move between objects and digital experiences rather than follow a simple timeline of the actor and singer’s career.
The upper-floor section titled Honey focused on family.
Painting as a shared language between father and daughter
The zone included landscape and flower paintings made by Lau and his 11-year-old daughter Hanna.
Lau described painting together as a way of strengthening their relationship and communication.
He also acknowledged that several works admired by visitors were his daughter’s and that art professionals considered her approach more imaginative than his own.
Hanna had made a large number of works but chose not to display many of her earlier paintings.
The exhibition therefore preserved her control over what entered public view despite the attention surrounding her father.
1/X used celebrity as its unavoidable context, but its strongest artistic element came from the different forms of making placed beside one another.
The father-daughter paintings introduced a private, collaborative practice into a large public exhibition and suggested that creativity could become a form of ordinary family communication rather than only professional production.