Elsewhere marks the first collaboration between two local Hong Kong artists, Au Hoi Lam and Sara Tse, whose painting- based and porcelain works each respectively echo a similar sense of subtle fragility and temporal sentimentality deeply associated with one's personal history and memory.

For Au, the gesture of meticulously counting through a cryptic disposition and arrangement of numbers and objects portrays the artist’s own fascination in the notion of the passage of time and more importantly, her conscious persistence in preserving its intimate parallel relation to the painting surface, and displacing the canvas into a site of private commemoration. The act of immortalizing past events and the lives of mementoes reappears in the artistic practice of Tse. Instead of denoting signs and codes, however, Tse renders materiality into timeless form by painstakingly encapsulating found objects, bearers of past episodic moments, into delicate coats of white porcelain. Along with the object’s basic attributes such as temperature, texture, and color, the history embedded within is subsumed into possibilities of new life signified by the rebirth of the material.

The power of the narrative within Au and Tse’s works, whether through hints of moments in time or evocation of past experience, further manifests into Elsewhere. The exhibition looks into the idea of the non-linear journey navigated by the two artists’ own intertwining dream, memory, and experience, where hidden meanings and interpretation together form as one tale. Works in the gallery space are souvenirs, objects of desire attach to significant milestones within this imaginary journey, away from the here, and the now.