“Frame” is the unit of film;
Seven repetitions of the character “日” （Day）, can represent days of the week, or —on medium-format film— fourteen frames across several shots. “Daily” is our life, habit, or a kind of autopilot: waking at the alarm, choosing Set A or Set B in the lunch hour, scrolling a phone at night until sleep. Artist Lau Cheuk Yin Leon is deeply interested in the relationship between the daily and out of daily. In a bustling city like Hong Kong, people feel stifled by monotonous routines yet unsettled by sudden disruptions — a contradiction that characterizes the modern urban condition.
“It is said that inconstancy is the only constant in life.” This line by the late poet Yu Kwang-chung captures the artist’s outlook. Lau believes the world is changing in small increments at every moment; continuous change itself becomes a stable “normal.” Like a computer compresses files: our brain filters out redundant information that requires no processing. That redundancy can be overlooked, missed, or blurred — that is daily life. Through multiple exposure, the artist compresses and materializes scenes into images that feel both familiar and entirely new. Multiple exposure here is not only a visual experiment but also a way for the artist to look at the “daily,” pinning the compressed it onto the gallery wall.

The artist projects subconscious imagery into the exhibition space. Four surreal works crisscross the gallery, exploring balance between the daily and out of daily — whether the ordinary is bland or ambiguous depends on one’s perception. Red lights, Green light is a picture-book photographic series in which traffic light figures symbolize social order and individual freedom. Echo of daydreaming presents a city multiple exposure series along a long corridor, the photographs invert and overlap urban signifiers, moving through different dreams. Inner universe, a excessive multiple exposure work, extracts the myriad lights and contours of the city to suggest an imagined cosmos. In the cross-location double exposure series Daily^2, projections of foreign locales and Hong Kong overlap: leaving a familiar daily can be an exit, or the entrance to another daily. Lau’s practice focuses on in-camera exposure techniques, especially long exposures and multiple exposures on film. He argues that photography in the present age is no longer primarily a documentary medium; rather, it becomes a nonverbal communication that conveys feelings and ideas beyond words.