22.01.2026—22.02.2026
Launch: Wednesday 21 January 2026, 6-8PM
There Is No Longer Spring is a dual exhibition by artist Ka Yan So and her partner Lex, reflecting on an intimate relationship formed and sustained under shifting socio-political conditions in Hong Kong. Built upon experiences of judgement, confinement, suspension, uprooting, and growth, the exhibition traces how personal bonds endure amid precarity.
Bringing together works created between 2021 and 2025, the exhibition traces a gradual transformation in how the relationship between the individual and society is understood—from adolescence into adulthood. Through automatic drawing, video game, text, and sculpture, waves of conflicting emotions surface, gently interrogating de-individualisation and melancholic inertia within conditions of collective paralysis. The exhibition emerges as a vulnerable yet deliberate attempt to imagine the future of a homeland, however softly, another way forward.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ka Yan is a Hong Kong–born, Melbourne-based artist working across drawing and installation. Her practice investigates how emotion, personal bonds, and identity are shaped by social and cultural conditions, particularly within experiences of displacement and post-colonial intergenerational migration. Using autoethnographic and psychoanalytic approaches, her practice stands as a living archive that preserves and reframes unspoken histories, foregrounds care and empathy as a threshold of collective thinking.
Her works have been exhibited at PICA (Perth), First Site Gallery (Melbourne), 1a space (Hong Kong) and Hong Kong Arts Centre.
Image Credit: Ka Yan So, 30 Minutes, 2021, Found object, medical powder, 90 x 37cm
