All That Is Solid Dissolves into Images

In a Hong Kong shaped by financialisation and pervasive mediation, images do not simply depict the world; they participate in the formation of value and reality. All that is Solid Melts into Images brings together sixteen Hong Kong artists whose works respond to a city conditioned by speed, density, and visualised projection. Here, the reality and future is often imagined—and circulated—first as image.
The exhibition spans analogue photography, collage, infrared imaging, moving image, and AI-generated works. Through cropping, layering, and reproduction, the artists foreground the conditions under which images are produced and circulated, unsettling the assumption that meaning is fixed. Several works draw on personal and institutional archives, transforming acts of preservation and arrangement into ways of questioning how images shape memory and history.

Through drone perspectives and spectral shifts, the city is reidentified: neon lights and streetlamps become moons and stars; the urban landscape registers as interface. Other works translate dreams and ideas of “home” into image-based experiments, asking how we might understand the future when images become the ground of environment and memory.

When all that appears solid can be rendered as image, how do we locate ourselves within it?

Carol Chow

Curator

Carol Chow is a curator and researcher, currently Programme Consultant of the Hong Kong International Photo Festival. Her work engages with gender, cultural identity, and the production, circulation, and reception of visual culture. She approaches curating as an ethical and relational practice grounded in care and sustained collaboration. She has curated exhibitions “A Room with a View” (2016), the Wall (2019), Beijing__Kilometers (2023), Megafamily (2024), “Flow with Big Mountain” (2026)”

Jennifer Lai

Associate Curator

Jennifer is a Hong Kong-born contemporary artist, curator, and art administrator. A graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) program jointly offered by RMIT University and Hong Kong Art School, her practice is driven by the conviction of “Art for Society’s Sake.” Deeply rooted in the city’s evolving cultural landscape, her work uses creative expression to raise public awareness and foster dialogue around pressing social issues.