The installation brings together found materials embedded with cultural memory.

Three red wooden chairs lie collapsed on the ground, arranged in two clusters. Resting atop them are red, white and blue nylon bags (紅白藍袋)—a familiar material in Hong Kong—each marked with dates of significant events and filled with crushed eggshells. In one, the shells spill onto the floor.

Process and gesture remain central. The repetitive marking of dates and the act of breaking and containing the eggshells accumulate as quiet, embodied actions. The materials hold tension between fragility and endurance, absence and persistence.

While grounded in the context of Hong Kong, the work opens toward broader experiences of diaspora; reflecting how histories of rupture, migration and adaptation are carried across borders, resonating beyond a single place or community.

Situated between places, the work considers displacement, identity and the persistence of memory.

History is not left behind; it is carried, reconfigured and continues to press upon the present.

. . . 

The weight we do not leave behind.