don't you remember? | SSEW Project

October 22 — November 15, 2025Tuesday — Saturday, 12—5 PMArtists: Xiang Gao, Nick Hoang, Kejie Lin, Tao Ma, Jiongwen ShiDon't you remember? poses a question we ask of fading moments—intimate, insistent, suspended between longing and loss. This group exhibition gathers artists whose works bear witness to the quiet violence of time: seasons turning, light shifting, spaces emptying, beauty receding just beyond reach.Here, memory is inseparable from season. Kejie Lin’s tulips in their final bloom become elegies for summer's end. Tao Ma’s daisies against patterned wallpaper hold the last light of long afternoons. Elsewhere, accumulated lines and burned edges become Jiongwen Shi’s emotional cartographies, marking time's passage through patient, obsessive gesture. Architectural interventions observed by Nick Hoang reveal thresholds between interior and exterior worlds—spaces suffused with the atmosphere of recent presence.What unites these artists is not style but stance: a refusal to look away from transience, a commitment to marking what passes. They attend to life's smaller departures, something not grand but subtle shifts in nuance. The particular warmth of September light. The way a room feels different after someone has just left it. These are changes we register peripherally, half-consciously, only recognizing their significance when they can no longer be traced back.The exhibition creates a friction between time's relentless forward motion and our desire to hold still, to preserve. Through image-making, these artists resist forgetting, even as they acknowledge that certain moments can never be fully retrieved, only approached through the inadequate, necessary language of form and colour.In the end, the question remains open. Don't you remember? In asking, we confess what slips away.