In his first solo exhibition in Europe, Cheung Tsz Hin unveils a new body of work that traces the fragile topography of emotion—how memories mutate, fracture, and reassemble over time. In starlight beneath the wavy leaves, the exhibition unfolds as a constellation of shifting sensations: longing, dislocation, tenderness, and the quiet ache of impermanence. What materializes are dreamlike environments suspended between the familiar and the spectral, where recollection and perception blur like light refracted through water—echoing the instability of remembrance itself.

“I’ve been thinking about the continuous process of shifting, twisting, and questioning in emotions that captivates me,” Cheung reflects. “Emotions evoked by memories or encounters are fragile and fragmented. Over time, they’re fabricated, reconstructed, and sometimes inverted.”

Cheung’s paintings often emerge without sketches or references, beginning instead from thin veils of oil that evolve intuitively. The process becomes an excavation of the subconscious—layers of color are rubbed, scraped, and washed, as if the artist were uncovering an image hidden beneath the surface of the mind. What materializes are dreamlike environments suspended between the familiar and the spectral, hovering at the edge of recollection, where certainty dissolves into haze.

In the exhibition, each painting becomes a vessel for transformation: an emotion perceived, reimagined, and re-experienced through paint. As Cheung observes, “Different minds will find different meanings and connections within the paintings. This openness to individual interpretation is something I find very interesting—it invites diversity.”

In starlight beneath the wavy leaves, memory is not a static archive but a living current, where loss and illumination coexist. The paintings shimmer with the residue of what has passed, capturing the delicate balance between holding on and letting go—the brief gleam of a sunbeam, lent to us too briefly.

Artists: Cheung Tsz Hin