過渡之地​​​ Soul Crossings in the Liminal Space

Soul Crossings in the Liminal Space brings together four artists raised in Hong Kong—Liu Sin Tung
(Cheryl), Judy Kong, Ka Yan So, and Yeung Sun Wai Wise—who share layered experiences of living in Melbourne. Through installation, video, sound, sculpture, drawing, photography, and ceramics, the exhibition examines belonging, displacement, and memory in the threshold between cultural landscapes. Curated by Liang Jing, the exhibition reflects on “liminal space” not just as a physical in-between, but as an emotional and cultural state in flux—where identities are negotiated and meanings are suspended.

Each artist approaches this transitional realm from distinct yet interwoven perspectives. Their works
traverse the intimate and the collective, the material and the ephemeral. Through fragmented memories and embodied gestures, they propose a quiet resistance to erasure: an insistence on presence amid absence.

Liu Sin Tung’s Sleep Metaphysics (2023) investigates the universally shared yet often overlooked experience of sleep. Using helium balloons and 3D-printed bodily forms, the work reconstructs sleep as a reflective, conscious threshold—an embodied pause between awareness and surrender. Influenced by Buddhist philosophy, Liu’s installation questions how daily gestures shape perception, and how systems of accumulation inform our understanding of the world. In reimagining sleep not as absence, but as a presence in transition, the work anchors metaphysical inquiry in the ordinariness of bodily rhythms.

Judy Kong’s Lostalgia (2025) unfolds as a shrine-like installation that reimagines the relationship between migration and memory. Deconstructing cinematic narrative into perceptual fragments, Kong weaves together video, sound, text, and sculpture to reflect on the emotional residue of movement across space and time. A zebra—a metaphorical body—paces endlessly in a non-linear video loop, embodying both journey and stasis. Wool-wrapped, bone-like objects scattered across the floor serve as gestures of preservation amid fading memory. A reinterpreted nursery rhyme, voiced in mourning tones, drifts through the space—turning collective language into intimate lament. Created during her temporary residence in Melbourne, Kong's work bridges the personal with a larger migratory narrative, offering a sanctuary for longing, loss, and emotional endurance.

Ka Yan So’s installation work No milk for the crying baby (2025) subverts the saying 'The squeaky wheel gets the grease’. She draws on her mother’s experience of menopause to explore maternal sacrifice and intergenerational pain. Incorporating sculpture, drawing, photography, and ritual materials like incense ash and clay, So reflects on the reversal of caregiving roles between mother and daughter. Symbolically invoking Guanyin—the bodhisattva of compassion—her installation speaks to inherited endurance, the silence of filial devotion, and the quiet grief of care. Material contrasts between soft wool, rusted metal, and teardrop-shaped clay elements underscore a gesture of care towards fragility that passed down through generations of migration and loss.

Yeung Sun Wai Wise’s ceramic and bamboo works navigate the contradictions of consumer culture and emotional healing. In Serenity in Opulence (2024), gilded wedding bangles morph into bandage-like forms, critiquing the commodification of tradition and desire. In The Breath of Brokenness (2025), charred bamboo surfaces juxtapose mirrored scars with regenerative shoots, gesturing toward trauma’s dual nature—destruction and growth. Embracing impermanence and decay, Wise questions whether healing can emerge from within capitalist aesthetics, or if it remains buried beneath them. His materials—fragile ceramics and timeworn bamboo—speak to a tension between value, vulnerability, and resilience.

Soul Crossings in the Liminal Space ultimately offers a shared inquiry into presence, memory, and
becoming. Through deeply personal lenses, each artist extends an invitation to dwell within the instability of in-betweenness. In their collective gestures, the exhibition becomes a vessel for quiet resistance—a space to remember, reflect, and reclaim.

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Soul Crossings in the Liminal Space

Exhibition Period｜5 June 2025 - 21 June 2025

Featured Artists｜Liu Sin Tung (Cheryl), Judy Kong, Ka Yan So, Yeung Sun Wai Wise

Curator｜Liang Jing

Opening Reception｜7 June 2025, Saturday, 15:00-18:00

Artist Tour｜8 June 2025, Sunday, 15:00-16:00

Venue｜1a space, Unit 14, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To KwaWan

Opening Hours｜11:00-19:00 (Closed on Mondays)​