YY9 Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition “Until You Are Here” by one of the most impressive emerging local artists, NGAI Wing-lam. In this exhibition, Ngai presents a new series of paintings which depicts fascinating stories inspired by the dreams she had, the surroundings of her life, as well as her daily interaction with friends.

In Ngai’s new series, one paintings has been created based on the story of the novel Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. The bride went to a wrong church, which captures respective images of the Fish Man and the Fish Woman who arrived the same venue just three minutes apart, hence failing to meet each other. Ngai attempts to express a surge of mixed emotions including joyfulness, sadness, surprise, puzzling, day dreaming and anger in a fully imaginative and insightful way as revealed by the Fish Man and the Fish Woman in her works.