![Lawrence Lek, NOX, 2023 [Still] CGI videos x 4, video game, soundtrack dimensions variable © Lawrence Lek. Courtesy the Artist and LAS Art Foundation, Berlin.](/media/cache/15/99/1599d1b811d01fe0b3d2ce5933311fcc.jpg)
![Lawrence Lek Geomancer, 2017 [Still] HD video, stereo sound duration: 48 min 15 sec © Lawrence Lek. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London.](/media/cache/f3/0d/f30d51bddcb6433a15a2a1c7a072e248.jpg)
![Lawrence Lek, NOX, 2023 [Still] CGI videos x 4, video game, soundtrack dimensions variable © Lawrence Lek. Courtesy the Artist and LAS Art Foundation, Berlin.](/media/cache/31/1f/311fb9703345d7a70ebab880829ef8e7.jpg)
![Lawrence Lek Geomancer, 2017 [Still] HD video, stereo sound duration: 48 min 15 sec © Lawrence Lek. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London.](/media/cache/2e/d9/2ed901916e908c8f592831f199a3533a.jpg)
St James’, New Cross, London SE14 6AD
This autumn, Goldsmiths CCA will host the largest UK institutional exhibition to date of London-based artist Lawrence Lek (b.1982, DE). Known internationally for single-project presentations combining film, installation, video games, and sound, this exhibition is the first to interweave multiple strands of Lek’s ongoing cinematic universe. For over a decade, Lek has developed a practice he describes as ‘worldbuilding for non-humans’, centering his narrative around Sinofuturism: a speculative framework in which the problems and promises of artificial intelligence and China’s technological influence converge. At turns dark and playful, his work is powerfully affective, featuring a recurring cast of characters who ask us what it means to exist in an age of machine consciousness and rapid social change – or what Lek calls a ‘science fiction that already exists’.
