Kwo Chau Islands is a multi-media installation that interrogates the fragile intersections of displacement, ancestral heritage, and the "politics of listening." Developed and first showcased at RCA 2025 and subsequently exhibited in Moments at Purist Gallery, London, the work reflects the artist’s unsettled navigation between Hong Kong and London.
The installation employs a suite of sound works and dual-channel video to explore how socio-political shifts fracture the transmission of family rituals. Utilizing shortwave radio as a primary medium, the artist captures the atmospheric interference and spectral "drift" of long-distance communication. These intercepted signals serve as a material metaphor for a heritage in flux, where the "unsettling" reality of diaspora is rendered through the tactile textures of radio noise and sonic warfare. By mapping the vast distance between the two metropolises, the work manifests a state of perpetual return, positioning the constant "retuning" of the past as a necessary act of contemporary inheritance.