
Laila Tara H featured in Home, A Fire at Cheng Lan Foundation
Cheng-Lan's Corner is pleased to present Home, A Fire, the first of a two-part exhibition curated by Hong Kong-based curator Junni Chen.
July 10 -> September 10 2026
Cheng-Lan’s Corner 03 Princes Terrace, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong SAR
Cheng Lan Foundation
Echoing the appearance of a home, the artists each reference furniture and other household items; others refer to the architecture of homes themselves. Although seemingly innocuous on first glance, the works on view are the result of the artists’ internalisation of various agitations and pressures. From Laila Tara H’s Takhté (Backgammon)—which references her act of viewing revolutionary protests in Iran from a distance, in her own bedroom— to Sofia Salazar Rosales’ They Ask to Stay—which points to objects extracted from commodification and forced mobility— what is revealed through this exhibition is how our living spaces can bear the emotional weight, ambivalence, and accumulated stress of dealing with socio-political forces that affect the small acts of our daily lives. Collectively, the works on view contemplate how the home is where we formulate our own self-concepts of selfhood, belonging, and identity. In addition, it points towards how the act of artmaking can still be rooted in domestic, intimate environments, whilst addressing broader global crises and conditions.

