A spokesperson says---
“...Short Letter, Long Farewell presents a new body of paintings and drawings that meditate on movement, longing, and the quiet intensity of everyday experience….
Born in Hong Kong and living in London, Kristy Chan approaches America as both a real and imagined place. The exhibition takes its title from Peter Handke’s novel Short Letter, Long Farewell, and unfolds as a reflective letter to America, the promise of renewal, and the uncertainty that shadows new beginnings. In Handke’s book, America is a place where the possibility of a new life exists alongside the remnants of an old one, a tension that resonates throughout Chan’s work. Several artworks in the exhibition draw directly from literature and cultural memory as frameworks for understanding the self, while others are rooted in moments of observation and lived experience. Together, these approaches give form to themes of inheritance and displacement, and the ongoing negotiation of belonging, memory, and selfhood.
Painted between 2024 and 2026, her canvases are inspired by fleeting encounters; a sunset, a walk through the park, or a remembered conversation, inviting a pause to recognize the beauty in the ordinary. In a moment marked by political, social, and environmental flux, the exhibition asks us to remain attentive to what is still luminous and human..."
