Un Cheng: What’s There When You Ain’t Home at Blindspot Gallery

Empty landscapes of Iceland, sometimes eerie and melancholic, rhyming with city scenes from Sham Shui Po, a neighbourhood that even in its real life presence can give you a very urban fantasy feeling. All of the paintings look to me like windows to some sort of mystical parallel worlds, co-existing with ours, reflecting and intertwining with it.
Since the texture is so luxurious it takes some time to gather all the details in a coherent narrative, so that’s where the paintings’ titles really help to get a hint on what’s depicted (looks at “I don't want this cake” and “Vanishing Gloves”; well, they don’t always help).

Exhibition period: 24 May—9 July
Gallery address: 15/F Po Chai Industrial Building, 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road