An Unfinished Homecoming

Ahead of her new exhibition at Empty Gallery, Cici Wu takes Tatler to a place at once familiar and uncomfortable, caught between cultures and yearning for belonging

By Aaina Bhargava

Tucked away in Grand Marine Center, an old industrial building on an unassuming street in Tin Wan, the vast exhibition space at Empty Gallery spans two floors and is purposefully plunged into pitch blackness. In direct contrast, the gallery’s fifth floor studio, reserved for artists to create in, is almost drowning in natural light. On a brutally hot July afternoon, sunlight poured into the room over a large wooden table cluttered with an assortment of objects: a vase full of minimally arranged yellow flowers; a wooden skeleton made of bamboo and wire, due to become a lantern; mounds of printed academic texts; and sheets of delicate bamboo paper stuck on to boards, a strip or two of film negatives, handwritten notes, and some curious doodles. In among the visuals on…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2023

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