Gallery EXIT is pleased to present “Yesterday Brightness”, a solo exhibition of new works by Hilarie HON.

HON continues to employ her signature bold colours and comical imagery to create a nightmarish surreal world. Her new series depicts scenes and fleeting moments that are not meant to last. Similar to a movie-watching experience, surreal spectacles with dramatic light and sky combine elements of reality with imagination, inviting the audience to experience from afar scenes on the canvases, such as a tree about to fall, a man walking in heavy rain, fiercely burning fire and bursting fireworks, all conveying a sense of alienation. The human figures, with their identities not specified, can be seen as either being inside or outside the painting panels. The element of light is also significant in HON’s works and the exhibition setting. It is either portrayed in the paintings as light and fire fiercely burning or appears as light sources outside the canvases, with the level of brightness gradually decreasing as the audience proceed deeper into the exhibition space.

Gallery address: 3/F, 25 Hing Wo Street, Tin Wan, Aberdeen