GROUP EXHIBITION

The exhibition takes its title from Yaya Yajie Liang’s 2024 painting ‘We are unwilling to spin out our thoughts into the phantasm of sleep, making cables of cobwebs are wilderness of handsome groves’. Liang’s practice is rooted in queer ecology, exploring the natural world as a space of expansive possibility where diversity of form is celebrated.

Julie Hamisky’s sculptures bring the exhibition into three dimensional form through delicate arrangements of flowers and shells. Raised in the countryside south of Paris and later working within the studio of her grandmother, Claude Lalanne, Hamisky developed a fascination with preserving the fleeting beauty of organic matter. Using electrolysis, a process that transforms living plants into metal, she suspends fragile forms in time. Her compositions challenge balance, appearing almost impossible in their arrangement. They remind us that nature follows its own order, one that often exceeds human understanding.

The landscape itself becomes a site of memory in the work of KV Duong. In Untitled (Enigma), no 3, he paints landscapes from his native Vietnam, terrains that carry the visible and invisible traces of war. His distinctive use of latex creates a surface that is at once sensuous and unsettling, recalling both skin and earth—a testimonial to his Vietnamese origin, but also his queerness. For Duong, landscapes are never neutral. They absorb history, holding the imprint of violence, displacement and time. Yet within these works the land also appears resilient.

These artists offer different pathways into the same fundamental realisation. The natural world is not separate from us but deeply intertwined with who we are. Landscapes hold memory, animals mirror our instincts and plants trace the rhythms of life itself. In turning towards these connections, the works in this exhibition ask us to imagine a future shaped not by domination of nature but by listening to its wisdom. Within that shift lies the possibility of healing, transformation and renewed belonging.