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The In Between Gallery is an exhibition space for contemporary photography in Fabrica’s window. We show work from two artists each year including an artist selected via an Open Call which is advertised annually in September and October.

Showing this summer is Fion Hung Ching-Yan’s ‘Stealing Oranges to Take Home for His Mother’ and ‘Tears That Brought Bamboo Shoots from the Frozen Earth’.

The two images are from the series 'The Skeletons in The Closet'. This photo collage project created by Fion in 2021 and 2022, challenges Chinese stereotypes and moralisations by using 24 Paragons of Filial Piety*, as a visual metaphor to talk about family expectations, self-identity and the pain that her and her family have inflicted on each other. In this series of works, Fion uses a surrealist approach to subvert her family's authority within their traditional values and in doing so, creates a reality that can never be seen in real life.

In 'Stealing Oranges to Take Home for His Mother' there is an 'orange sea' in the room, with a hand sneaking from the back of the sofa in the middle. This image references the story from the 24 Paragons of Filial Piety series, in which a loyal son who stole oranges from his relatives' house and got caught. He later explained that he stole because he remembered his parents loved eating oranges. His relatives then forgave him and even praised him as a good son as he cared about his family's needs no matter where he was.