Everyday Distances
Everyday Distances – A Group Exhibition of Five Artists
Distance has never been merely a measurement of space.
In the city, we grow accustomed to a certain kind of proximity – shoulders brushing against shoulders, gaps between buildings folding into one another, moments stacking upon moments. Yet true distance often lies in the things that cannot be measured. They are close at hand, but we habitually rush past them.
Five artists, five ways of seeing the everyday. Unknowingly, they each excavate a poetic distance from the soil of the ordinary – familiar yet strange, minute yet vast.
Fung Chim gazes at the marginal details of the city with a devotion bordering on the sacred. Using refined oil painting techniques and careful composition on canvas, he meticulously depicts plant leaves and brick walls, creating strong contrasts between form and colour. These things have always existed, yet have never truly been seen. Between realism and imagination, he opens up an "archaeological" distance – teaching us once again to see the worn, the forgotten, and the resilient urban texture that continues to grow.
Jess Leung, with the delicacy of traditional Gongbi brushwork, captures the refined anxieties of contemporary emotion. In this exhibition, she presents a new series of horse paintings from 2026, responding to her 2024 ink installation “Ready, Set, Go!”, commissioned by the Hong Kong Museum of Art for the exhibition Life Planning for the Ancient Literati – Selections from the Xubaizhai Collection of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy. Through a dialogue across time with the ancients, she explores the meaning of life from their examples – that as long as one is happy, that is enough.
Giraffe Leung’s work is a conceptual reconstruction of urban space. He dismantles maps, gathers forgotten objects, and reassembles them into new utopian islands. The distance between reality and imagination becomes a critical measure – those memories that have vanished or been erased by urban planning gain another kind of existence through reconstruction.
Sam Cheng’s Gongbi landscapes and still lifes are an inner cultivation. With fine lines and understated tones, she adopts a way of seeing that follows the heart. Through subjective imagination and emotional connection, she builds a quiet corner of the soul for herself and for viewers. The distance between the external world and inner stillness is gradually shortened with her brush, offering audiences an unprecedented visual experience of Hong Kong’s landscapes.
Ting Sze Lok walks on paper – from parks to hillsides, smudging and erasing, weaving through streets and slopes, wandering uninhabited elsewhere. She redraws familiar places again and again, recording what happened beyond the map. Her practice is not about "capturing" the everyday, but about "dwelling" within it. The companionship between people, the memories between people and things, the connections between people and community – these most intimate distances are preserved in her works like handwritten letters.
Everyday Distances is not an absence, but a way of seeing. When we are willing to stop, to draw our gaze closer or push it further away, to give ourselves a breath within the hurried rhythm of the city – the everyday ceases to be merely ordinary. It begins to speak.
These five artists are precisely those five pairs of eyes – willing to pause, to look closely, to listen. Their works are love letters to this city – not sentimental, not loud, yet within the distance, they hold the deepest tenderness.
May you find, within this exhibition, your own distance for seeing the everyday.
Enders
Founder, Touch Gallery
May 2026
