WHAT
The local artist’s (b. 1992) much-anticipated first solo exhibition with the gallery uses the bauhinia plant as the main motif. Through graphite drawings, oil paintings, handmade objects, photography, and installations, the artist’s new series of works navigates between deconstruction and reconstruction, examining how the tissues of our identities are splintered and joined. Through found objects and transposed plants, the exhibition examines the familial, social, and historical fragments that forge one’s identity.

WHY
The bauhinia plant is a metaphor for the artist’s own identity. Unable to self-reproduce, the bauhinia plant can only be propagated through grafting. In his new paintings, the artist maps connections between the dependent nature of the bauhinia and his own diasporic identity, which often feels circumstantially-shaped and not easily-defined as a young 5-year old immigrant from China to Hong Kong.