Empty Gallery is pleased to present our first exhibition with Hong Kong-based filmmaker Chan Hau Chun. Chan’s quietly radical moving image practice is defined by a sense of diaristic intimacy and empathetic distance grounded in a deep regard for her city and its inhabitants––both past and future. Depicting the affective landscape of contemporary Hong Kong through a direct engagement with figures who rarely (if ever) enter into the matrix of official representation, Chan’s films bear witness to the movement of a precarious and yet defiant autonomy which is nothing more than the continued practice of simply living.

Chan Hau Chun is a filmmaker living and working in Hong Kong. She received her BA from City University of Hong Kong in 2015. Her work was the subject of a solo exhibition, Silent Sojourns, at WMA Space, Hong Kong in 2024. She has also participated in group exhibitions including Tsaiyun (Rosy-Cloud) Bridge / Forget Each Other in the Rivers and Lakes at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Norway (2023); An Individual as Society in Guangzhou, China (2019); and Drifting Borders at Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong (2018)

Opening reception: Saturday, June 7, 5–7PM



Gallery address: 19/F, Grand Marine Center, 3 Yue Fung Street, Aberdeen