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FQM is pleased to announce that works by our artist Yau Wing Fung are currently on view in Strata and Symbiosis at chi K11 art space in Guangzhou, China, through October 26, 2025. The exhibition is part of Ink Art Ensembles, a program of five exhibitions jointly organized by the Art Promotion Office of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Shenzhen Fringe Art Center. The initiative celebrates cultural exchange between Hong Kong and cities across the Greater Bay Area.
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Strata and Symbiosis explores the dialogue between ink and digital media, presenting a multidimensional reflection on time, space, and cultural memory. The exhibition invites audiences to encounter new landscapes that bridge tradition and contemporaneity, the static and the dynamic, and the coexistence of urban environments and the natural world.
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Within this framework, Yau Wing Fung contributes a selection of major works that reinterpret traditional Chinese landscape painting across diverse media and formats. Among them is a large-scale cyclical installation in which painted landscapes encircle the viewer on inner walls. As visitors navigate the space, they are immersed in an experiential journey through mountains and rivers that reimagines the act of viewing landscapes.
Another highlight is a set of six landscape paintings, unified by a similar horizon yet differentiated through varying hues. A bare, ancient tree stretches across all six panels, providing viewers with both spatial depth and a panoramic sense of scale, as if one were gazing across the peaks from a mountain summit. This work is representative of Yau’s practice, where he often utilizes visual illusion to create depth and three-dimensional structures that both transcend the two-dimensional surface and extend beyond the imagination of the natural world.
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In addition, Yau presents a new series of 75 small landscape blocks, each sharing a similar compositional form but distinguished by different styles of traditional Chinese paintings. Through this body of work, the artist experiments with multiple representations of landscape, offering a dynamic exploration of how tradition can be reinterpreted through repetition and variation.
Together, these works expand Yau’s ongoing practice of reimagining the Chinese landscape tradition into contemporary visual languages that speak to cultural continuity and transformation. Through Strata and Symbiosis, Yau affirms his position as one of the leading voices in redefining the possibilities of ink art today.
