Mama always murmurs, why are we forever living through separation and goodbyes.
Farewell (2026–) is an ongoing project that began when Ka Yan visited her homeland for a month, being told that it would be the last time she could return to the home that had anchored her family across generations of migrations.
Yet farewell is never quite reached. This exhibition traces a recurring and failing practice of detachment, when understanding that an end is inevitably necessary, but remaining psychically bound to the love that has been left behind. Moving between personal experience and Hong Kong’s unresolved post-colonial conditions, Farewell stays in the suspended space between holding on and letting go, as to negotiate with the paradoxical position of a forever displaced self.
As love, family and authority become psychically entangled within a shifting cultural and political environment, art emerges as a way for the self to live through collective grief.