Within & Beyond (2025) brings together London-based artists of Asian heritage, whose practices critically engage with themes of migration, memory, and cultural hybridity. Working across diverse media, they examine how identity is continuously shifted amid experiences of displacement and intercultural encounter.
The exhibition draws on cultural theorist Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of the ‘third space,’ conceived as a site of hybridity in which meanings are contested and novel cultural expressions emerge. Within this framework, identity is never fixed but remains in a state of formation, continuously shaped by displacement, language, and the interpretive gaze of others.
Expanding on Bhabha’s framework, the exhibition transforms the gallery itself into a third space — a site where personal memory and grand narratives meet, clash, and renegotiate, allowing hybrid identities to emerge. From intimate paintings inspired by childhood memory, the reimagined English Willow plates, to AI-mediated images, Within & Beyond resists reducing difference to mere labels. Instead, it preserves hybridity and dislocation as processes in motion, inviting both artists and audiences to participate in the ongoing formation of identities within the globalised present.
