WHAT
The Hong Kong artist’s newly-commissioned exhibition at the non-profit examines the shifting dynamics among nature, the body, and materiality using Chinese medicine drawers as vessels. Growing up in a family-run Chinese medicine shop, the artist was immersed in the world of materia medica, and this upbringing has deeply influenced her artistic practice. Central to the exhibition are salvaged drawers from now-defunct traditional Chinese pharmacies in Hong Kong, reimagined as sites of transformative healing; recast to hold the artist’s works, they prompt reflections on material change while highlighting the interconnectedness of living beings, geology, and human-made objects.

WHY
Curated by Yuanyu Li, the exhibition presents works across three ‘islands’ within Para Site’s 10/F space, anchored by a central wooden structure inspired by generative systems. The immersive installation integrates Chinese herbs, rocks, kinetic sculptures, 3D-printed objects, sonic rhythms and more, creating an ecosystem where the boundaries between the organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate, dissolve.