2026.07.02-2026.07.31

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Where Light Meets Shadow: Duo Exhibition Curatorial Statement

 

A city is never merely concrete and steel. It is also the quiet memories gathered by plants, the shifting daylight framed by windows, and the moments at dusk when boundaries dissolve—between clarity and obscurity, between the familiar and the strange.

 

Touch Gallery is honoured to present a duo exhibition featuring Aries Wu and Lewis Lau. Working in painting as their chosen language, these two artists begin from different points of departure, yet both turn their gaze toward the traces of time leaves on the city's surface.

 

Aries Wu traces the silent diaries of plants. In his depictions of roses, shifting leaf shadows, and street-corner thickets, he records how latitude and sunlight alter the warmth or coolness of a single shade of green, while also preserving emotions and fleeting moments that words cannot capture. His canvases carry delicate observation and gentle brushwork—looking out from a room toward a window, walking from home to a child's school. These ordinary paths become quietly gathered gardens in his work.

 

Lewis Lau, in contrast, dwells in what the French call “entre chien et loup”—that moment at twilight when light fades and the outlines of things grow hard to discern. Living in England yet longing for Hong Kong, he looks back at his home city through memory and images. The streets and buildings remain recognisable, yet their contours, painted and repainted, take on a sense of estrangement. His work does not reproduce what he sees; instead, it captures a state between clarity and blur—where the familiar begins to waver and boundaries no longer hold.

 

In Aries Wu's seemingly faithful depictions of plants, an emotional shift emerges from movement and recollection. In Lewis Lau's quiet tones and soft light, a sense of disorientation—born of time and distance—rises from concrete urban scenes. Neither artist paints only what lies before their eyes; each offers landscapes built from sustained looking and layered experience.

 

In this July light, we invite you to step into this city at once tangible and dreamlike—between the everyday and the twilight hour, among leaf veins and beneath lamplight—to feel those moments that are quietly fading away, yet gently held still by the artist's brush.

 

Touch Gallery

July 2026