STRANGER THINGS
24 - 29 August, 2026
West Gallery
STRANGER THINGS
Stranger Things proposes a world governed by an unfamiliar yet internally coherent material logic. Forms appear displaced from conventional systems of use and classification; bodies, objects and structures occupy unstable positions between the organic and the manufactured, the functional and the symbolic, the intimate and the estranged.
Within this altered order, meaning is not abandoned but suspended and redistributed. Familiar associations surface gradually through material, gesture and use, only to become unsettled again by context and transformation. The works retain traces of bodily experience, memory, and utility, yet resist reduction to any singular reading.
The room therefore operates through a continual negotiation between otherness and recognition. Its forms appear almost alien, but never entirely severed from lived experience. Instead, they construct a parallel material world in which function, identity and meaning remain provisional - and where intimacy persists precisely through their displacement.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Huo Chenlong
Jason Chen
Li Shuangqiang
Lit Wing Hung
Matthew MacDonald
Qiu Jiahao
Setareh Hajivandi
Shirley Fu
Winsome Yuen
Yasmin Ozyilmaz
Zhang Hongru