Hui Jing: Between Flow and Return

Hui Jing: Between Flow and Return is the first collaborative exhibition by Floracry and Kuan-Ya Wu at Openroom. Beginning with the relationship between the artificial and the natural, the exhibition explores softness, structure, memory, and the ways people construct a sense of home through objects and spaces.

Rather than representing nature itself, the exhibition considers how nature is imagined, reconstructed, and brought into domestic environments. Water, rocks, furniture, plants, and everyday objects become vessels for emotions, memories, and aspirations, offering temporary forms of stability within an uncertain world.

Water Basin serves as the starting point of the exhibition. Inspired by water features in East Asian domestic gardens, the installation brings together water, rocks, and living forms to create a miniature landscape between the natural and the constructed. As water continuously moves through the basin while rocks and organic forms remain in place, the work reflects on the balance between control and adaptation, movement and stillness.

Rocks carrying the same textures extend from the installation into the gallery, allowing the landscape to unfold beyond the basin and into the surrounding space. Floracry’s ceramic works further continue this relationship through small domestic objects. Drawing from East Asian visual traditions, including the orchid and the Four Treasures of the Study, these works explore how natural forms, material textures, and everyday objects can hold subtle emotional and spiritual associations.

Wu approaches these questions through furniture, fabric, stitching, and family memory. Rattan Chair reconstructs spaces once occupied by family members through repeated acts of stitching and mending, while Children’s Table opens the idea of home toward shared memories and new possibilities of dwelling.

Together, the works consider home not as a fixed place, but as something continually formed through movement, memory, care, and imagination. Between flow and return, softness and structure, the exhibition traces the quiet ways in which people create spaces to belong.