on 21 Mar 2026
Hong Kong’s Karin Weber Gallery recently hosted a compelling group exhibition curated by art historian and writer Caroline Ha Thuc.
ALL-SEA: Eight Oceanic Artistic Practices from Southeast Asia and Hong Kong brought together eight artists from the region—including Ari Bayuaji of Indonesia, Charles Lim Yi Yong of Singapore and Louis To Wun of Hong Kong—to explore personal, social, ecological, and cultural relationships with the ocean.
Drawing inspiration from Caribbean philosopher Édouard Glissant’s concept of the Tout-Monde (All-World), which emphasises interconnection and perpetual transformation, the title “All-Sea” reimagined the sea as a living, dynamic entity with its own rules and agency.
The exhibition layout symbolically mirrored a descent: starting from the luminous surface waters and progressing toward the mysterious depths of the oceanic abyss, with diverse media—video, painting, photography, sculpture, textile/installation—reflecting the multiplicity of marine life and perspectives.
Works included Tsang Chui Mei’s elegant Tide Upon The Island Shore (above) and Louis To Wun’s striking sculpture Seafood (at top), a bamboo-and-paper chimera of a shrimp with a dragon’s head (playing on the Chinese term longxia or “dragon shrimp”), that is rooted in childhood seaside living and the traditional paper effigy-making for sea goddess rituals on the Hong Kong island of Cheung Chau.
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