Hei Lam Ng Casanova

Casanova tells a short fictional story of a dream, where the narrator meets Casanova at the Venice carnival. The story unfolds in a foggy surrounding through the reader advancing the vellum pages. One line of text is printed on each page, and the opacity of the vellum paper allows the reader to see about 2 lines of text at once. By advancing the pages, the text on the next page becomes clearer, simulating the experience of walking forward in a foggy environment with limited visibility.

Hei Lam Ng (she/her)

Hei Lam Ng is a Hong Kong-Canadian artist currently residing in Vancouver, BC, who has a great passion in artist’s books and printed matters. As a multilingual speaker of four languages (Cantonese, English, Mandarin, and Japanese), she is very interested in language concepts and structures, and the ambiguity of translation. Hei Lam holds a BFA in photography from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2014), and a MFA in Studio Arts (Print Media) from Concordia University (2025). She is the founder of “bocchi projects”, an artist’s group that features, encourages, and endorses small run book projects by independent artists. “Bocchi projects” has exhibited Canadian artist’s book works across cities in Canada, as well as Tokyo and Taipei internationally.