Visions of Renewal
2026.02.04 - 2026.02.28
Exhibition Statement
Visions of Renewal: A Multi-Dimensional Dialogue on Scenery
Room 103 Pine Rock Pavilion | “The Guqin and Landscape"
Featuring Hong Kong artist Zaffer (Chan Sui Ying) and Taiwanese artists Tsai Tzu Yao & Tsai Ya Hsuan.
This is a dialogue on Eastern aesthetics, with the ancient "guqin" (seven-string zither) as its spiritual thread. Artists Tsai Tzu Yao and Tsai Ya Hsuan, hailing from Taitung, extend the vital breath of mountain-and-water landscapes from paper onto hinoki cypress and guqin, transforming majestic peaks into tangible, resonant objects. Their brushwork flows with a serenity that breathes in unison with heaven and earth. Hong Kong artist Zaffer uses still lifes and landscapes as her medium, integrating the guqin into her compositions, transforming everyday objects into echoes of distant contemplation. Here, the guqin is more than an instrument; it is an enigmatic symbol connecting "distant mountains" with "nearby objects," "external scenery" with "internal realms," guiding us into a tranquil world that can be heard, seen, and pondered.
Room 103 | "Her Sights · New Visions" A Trio Exhibition by Female Artists
Stepping out from the lingering melodies of Pine Rock Pavilion, the Main Hall presents the sharp yet tender contemporary perspectives of three female artists, collectively weaving a spiritual tapestry of adversity, tranquility, and reinvention.
Artist Jessie Siu’s series, "On the Edge of Being: Finding Beauty in the Struggle," confronts the trials of life as a journey across a landscape of blades. Her work transmutes hardship into an aesthetic rite of passage, where adversity is framed not as pain alone but as vital terrain for growth and resilience. Within each tension-filled composition, viewers are invited to revisit their own struggles—discovering in the fissures not wounds, but the emerging shape of light. This collection inspires a courageous embrace of life’s sharp edges, revealing how even amidst difficulty, serenity and passion can be kindled, and meaning forged from the beautiful complexity of the human journey.
Artist Sherry Fung’s series, “Peaceful is…”, offers coordinates for stillness within Hong Kong’s relentless pace. Through exquisitely rendered gongbi lines and delicate plays of light, she frames those rare moments when the city slows—the dappled sunlight on a brick wall, tree shadows swaying on a quiet path, the fleeting presence of a squirrel or street cat. These scenes are not empty, but quietly alive: a reminder that even between concrete and steel, life breathes and pauses. Here, peace is the gentle fall of light on an ordinary view—a Hong Kong reimagined not as speed, but as space to rest, breathe, and heal.
Artist Liu Cheng Mui, taking the Year of the Horse as her point of departure, reimagines its form and spirit through a masterful command of color and structure. Her poised horses—caught between stillness and motion—serve as both emblems of strength and symbols of liberation. Color transcends depiction to convey emotion; structure simultaneously defines and deconstructs, revealing tension beneath order. Beyond representation, these dynamic forms become visible traces of spirit—a dialogue between feeling and form, restraint and release—ultimately embodying a grace that is both powerful and reflective.
From guqin's echo to blade's edge, city's quiet to steed's poise—this exhibition navigates "mind" and "scenery." It opens windows: to feel resonance in form, grasp resilience in adversity and calm, and see renewal where tradition meets contemporary expression.
We invite you to step into this "new vision" , listen to their inner resonance, touch the temperature of the scenery, and, carrying their own unique frame of mind's landscape, entering a spring full of vitality.
