Gallery EXIT presents Stephen WONG Chun Hei’s solo exhibition ‘The Star Ferry Tale’, showcasing the artist’s latest landscape paintings. During his many years living in Hong Kong, Wong sketches as he rambles through the local landscape, which becomes material for his creation. His works vividly depict the urban and rural sceneries that incorporate idealised imagery from his subjective imagination, at once strange and familiar, prompting the viewer to contemplate the interdependence of man and nature between the real and the surreal.

The exhibition opens with ‘The Star Ferry Tale’, a set of 11-panel large scale panoramic oil paintings inspired by space documentaries. With galaxies as backdrop, the perspective is extended to outer space, overviewing Hong Kong from above planet Earth. Filled with imaginative elements, the work expresses the artist’s personal response towards the grandeur and infinity of the universe. Under the scrutiny of the telescope, the universe’s past exists in parallel with our present. Likewise, the work adopts a non-linear narrative where different temporal and spatial planes crisscross each other, a Hong Kong space epic documenting the transition of eras.

Gallery address: 3/F, 25 Hing Wo Street, Tin Wan, Aberdeen