
Take Turns by Hong Kong artist Wing Po So is a newly commissioned exhibition at Para Site that examines the shifting dynamics among nature, the body, and materiality using Chinese medicine drawers as vessels. Growing up in a family-run Chinese medicine shop, So was immersed in the world of materia medica, and this upbringing has deeply influenced her artistic practice.
Central to the exhibition are salvaged drawers from now-defunct traditional Chinese pharmacies in Hong Kong, reimagined as sites of transformative healing. The drawers’ worn surfaces bear witness to cycles of preservation, decay, and regeneration. Recast to hold the artist’s works, they prompt reflections on material change while highlighting the interconnectedness of living beings, geology, and human-made objects.
The exhibition presents works across three ‘islands’ within Para Site’s tenth-floor space, anchored by a central wooden structure inspired by generative systems. The immersive installation integrates Chinese herbs, rocks, kinetic sculptures, 3D-printed objects, sonic rhythms and more, creating an ecosystem where the boundaries between the organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate, dissolve. Take Turns is curated by Yuanyu Li.
Born in 1985 in Hong Kong, Wing Po So graduated with a B.F.A from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in Saint Louis in 2007, and with an M.F.A. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012.

Established in 1996 by seven Hong Kong artists, Para Site began as the city’s first artist-run exhibition space and has since developed into an internationally networked hub for contemporary art.

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