“With people, then comes the artwork” best describes this exhibition’s genesis. Initiated by the Hong Kong Art School Alumni Network’s Nudge Forward Mentorship Scheme, the project brings together six previously unacquainted young artists to explore what kinds of encounter and resonance might emerge.

Across diverse media, the artists open up distinct yet interlaced enquiries. Roy renders the inner transformations of consciousness through meticulous metalpoint mark‑making; Hoi Yi continues her extension of performance and clay, treating material as an elongation of body and emotion; Cd, drawn to the resilience of clay, embarks on a journey to trace the stories and origins embedded in the medium; Carol investigates bloodlines and cross-strait relations, while unfolding and enquiring how historical memory inscribes itself on individual lives; drawing from the gestures of bouldering, Marco reshaped and folded the wooden blocks, reimagining them into a planar extension; Sami, with his unique perspective, distils the dark humour that hovers between living and merely surviving.

Attuned to the tiniest of marks and traces, here, time and space are both processes of materialities and methodologies, guiding viewers into deeper ways of looking and reflection. The exhibition takes its title from a core principle of forensic science, Locard’s Exchange Principle, which states that “every contact leaves a trace.” Here, collisions between bodies, objects, and histories register not only as material transfers, but also as the slow fermentation of thoughts and emotions that, over time, etch their imprint into an as‑yet‑unseen future.

The Gallery of Hong Kong Art School, 10/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai