Hong Kong artist Lau Wai looks at the unsettling future of humans and AI in solo show
Hong Kong artist Lau Wai explores the intersection of human identity and artificial intelligence in a new solo exhibition titled 'After Intelligence'. The show uses digital avatars and CGI to depict a future where humans and AI become indistinguishable.
Why it matters
It reflects growing societal anxiety regarding the displacement of human labor and the blurring lines between reality and synthetic media.
Hong Kong artist Lau Wai has spent the past two months turning the De Sarthe gallery in Wong Chuk Hang into an open studio, building a new body of work that asks a question many are only beginning to grapple with: as artificial intelligence advances, what will be the ultimate role of humans?
The answer, in the 42-year-old’s new solo exhibition “After Intelligence”, is not a comforting one.
The exhibition, which runs until September 25, unfolds like a closed loop: humans undergo AI training while AI learns to mimic humans, blurring the line between what is human and what is artificial in this digital age.
At the centre of the narrative is WAI, a digital avatar of Lau that first appeared in his The Cast of the Invisible (2024), which won the Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica 2025.
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