WKM Gallery is delighted to present My tender passion, tender patience, the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by Japanese artist Soh Souen. This exhibition offers a wide-ranging overview of the artist’s ongoing inquiries into, and practices concerned with, “life”. The exhibition is on view from 5 September to 31 October 2026.

At the center of the exhibition is Again and Again, a series of pastel works that the artist has continued to develop over many years. Created during moments of respite and moments of anguish, the works involves an attunement to the sense of touch. The artist’s own skin gently strokes the “skin” of the painting’s surface, and the clothing and adornments depicted are those that remain in intimate contact with the skin, the body. As the painting becomes skin, it tends to the artist in return, shifting the conventional one-directional relationship between the one who paints into a reciprocal exchange.

Opening Reception: 5 September | 4 - 8 pm

Gallery address: 20/F Coda Designer Centre, Wong Chuk Hang