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Past Exhibitions

Oscillation

Curated by Denise Lin, Yu Wang and Yuri Xiao

24 - 30 June 2025 

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Departing from conventional visual-centered curating, Oscillation invites visitors into a multisensory environment shaped by plants, textures, weather, and sound.  The exhibition unfolds across the gallery’s front yard, interior, and garden—embracing the natural rhythms and overlooked materials that already inhabit the space.

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The project is rooted in an animist methodology, viewing materials not as passive objects, but as co-agents capable of response and resonance.  Curatorial gestures emerge from field-based sensory sampling: sounds of wind through grass, birdsong, and ephemeral traces like moss or fragments of bark.  These are not set decorations, but vital elements of an ecological choreography in which the exhibition takes place.

Sound plays a central role—not as background ambiance, but as a spatial climate.  Wind chimes, environmental recordings, and subtle auditory traces invite slow attention, offering an alternative to visual dominance and linear viewing.  Visitors are encouraged to drift, listen, and dwell in a space where perception is relational, not directive.
 

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Oscillation, installation view. Photo by Yuri Xiao

Yasmine Anlan Huang & Diyou Yu:

Weighty is the Wood, Tender is the Night

2 November 2024 – 27 April 2025 (extended)

Visit by appointment only

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​What draws together Yasmine Anlan Huang and Diyou Yu is a deep fascination with time. Yasmine brings to this exhibition her lastest installation series Bad things happen, not only in literature (2024), where vintage, displaced objects re-emerge as a site where multiple layers of the past co-exist. In Yasmine’s single-channel video installation, Her Love is a Bleeding Tank, an eye becomes a theatre. Time, in a little girl’s theatre of life, finds a different kind of configuration. Light creeps into walnut wood in the blink of an eye. Time is folded into the pages of Diyou’s artist book While You Were Absent, Flowers Blossomed, a project that is all about waiting, a process wherein the apparitions of flower petals might even surprise their creator.

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Yasmine Anlan Huang & Diyou Yu: Weighty is the Wood, Tender is the Night, installation view. Photo by Charlotte Duojin Yao and Panpan Yang.

Zhang Chi: Extra(Ordinary) 

13 April – 18 August 2024

Visit by appointment only

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With a diverse body of work spanning watercolour landscapes, sculpture and Chinese calligraphy, Zhang Chi’s art practice carries with it a sense of incompleteness and shows us that the most extraordinary details paradoxically emerge in the ordinary. A cloud, a cup of afternoon tea and a street corner: these quotidian, seemingly insignificant fragments of everyday life are elevated into something transcendent, whispering to us. 

 

For this exhibition, calligraphic imagination takes root in the most unexpected corners of Small Gallery: a glass window, a shower screen, a roll of toilet paper, or a light bulb. These experiments put into play the relations between visibility and invisibility, between exhibition and non-exhibition spaces, and between art creation and curation. 

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Zhang Chi: Extra(Ordinary), installation view.

Current exhibition

Lisa Chang Lee: Wind Dwellers

15 December 2023– 15 March 2024

Visit by appointment only

Taking inspiration from the wind chimes on the doorstep of Small Gallery, Lisa Chang Lee brings to this site-specific exhibition a set of newly commissioned, hand-painted bronze sculptures of birch tree leaves. Also on display is her 2023 remix of the audiovisual installation Serenade of the Woods. Evoking the 'wind in the trees' effect that fascinates audiences of early cinema, the work explores the ways in which a sense of contingency co-exists with audiovisual media of reproducibility.

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Lisa Chang Lee: Wind Dwellers, installation view.

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