A multimedia exhibition by Tsz Wai Pun and Coşkun Güçlü exploring ecological restoration on Tai Mo Shan in Hong Kong, presented as part of Photoworks Festival 2026.
Tsz Wai Pun and Coşkun Güçlü bring Bones of Our Land to Gallery Lock In on Little Western Street, with the exhibition running from 2 October 2026 to 18 January 2027. There's a launch event on Sunday 4 October, 1 pm to 2.30 pm, if you want to catch it early.
It's a multimedia project by the duo—Pun is an artist, Güçlü an ecologist—and it focuses on a single hillside on the northern slopes of Tai Mo Shan in Hong Kong. That hillside is currently undergoing ecological restoration, and the two treat its soil as a record of recent ecological change and deep evolutionary time. They work with film, sound, archival materials, photography, scientific fieldwork, and soil DNA analysis, layering volcanic geology, agricultural history, hill fires, colonial intervention, and the restoration work itself. They describe the hillside as a palimpsest, where each era is written over the last but still visible beneath.
The exhibition was created for WMA's 2025/26 theme 'Hope', and it forms part of Photoworks Festival 2026, whose exhibitions run from 2 October to 1 November across Brighton and Hove. It's co-curated by Louise Fedotov-Clements, Chloe Chow, Dreamy Place, and Gallery Lock In, and presented in partnership with Photoworks Festival, WMA, Gallery Lock In, and Dreamy Place.
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Because it runs through the winter, you've got plenty of time to see it—it stays open until 18 January, well after the main festival has wrapped up. The launch is on Sunday 4 October, 1 pm to 2.30 pm, at Gallery Lock In, Little Western Street, Brighton and Hove BN1 2PU.
