Grotto Fine Art is pleased to present Crossing the nights Filling the lines, the fourth solo exhibition of artist Bouie Choi Yuk-kuen, taking place from March 8 to April 1 at Grotto SKW. The opening reception is scheduled for March 11th, from 2-6pm.

‘Sometimes I paint the day as night and the night as dawn. So “the moments” are migrated into a carrier trapping time.’

‘Imagine time as a series of lines: like alternating bars of light and shadow; like the first stroke of charring on carbonized wood; like the crosswalk at an intersection; like the line differentiating day and night on an infinite timeline…Confronting these demarcations, I think I can try to fill the gaps between the red lines.’

Crossing the nights Filling the lines represents the latest chapter in Choi's journey of artistic discovery. The dynamic urban imagery in this exhibition, constituting an ethereal journey of scattered lights which Choi forges from her vocabulary of forms, lines, and edges, evokes the shifting positionalities of identities and interpretations of this idea called ‘Home’. 

In Bouie Choi’s new painting, alongside her delicate sensibility, urban landscape is not just a stage, it plays a part in the narrative rather than simply providing a backdrop for it. She depicts a temporally unstable landscape where different periods of time merge and meet. A landscape is never finished nor fixed.

嘉圖現代藝術誠摯呈獻「彼月此日」，藝術家蔡鈺娟與本畫廊合作的第四次個人展覽。展覽由3月8日至4月1日於嘉圖筲箕灣（Grotto SKW）開放參觀，開幕定於3月11日星期六下午2時至6時。

「有時我會將白天的畫成黑夜，將夜晚的畫成黎明。因此這些片刻像被移種，成為困住『時間』的載體。」

「試想像時間是一道道線：像光與影黑白相間，像在碳化木上烙下的第一筆，像十字路口上的斑馬線，像日與夜在時間線上的截線……然後在當世這些紅線下，我應該可以試著填補這些線隙。」

「彼月此日」代表了蔡鈺娟在藝術探索之旅中的最新一站。是次展覽，蔡氏運用其獨有的線條、塗層及邊緣處理，將城市意象及散落的光揉合成這場空靈之旅，引領觀眾進入這個永遠流動、永遠變化的城市之夜，沉浸在燈光、木紋和線條的世界中，探索自己的身份和家的意義。

是次新作，蔡氏以其細膩的感受性描繪了時間不穩定、流動的風景 — 城市風景不再僅僅是一個舞台、單純的背景，更是敘事的一部分。不同時期的時間在此融合、交會。這個景觀永遠不會被完成，也未被固定，就像身份和家的定義一樣，不斷變化，不斷演變。