The Chamber of Young Snow Art Exhibition Hall at Lingnan University presents a new exhibition on time across the ages
From 6 March to 4 September 2026, the Chamber of Young Snow Art Exhibition Hall at Lingnan University presents Fleeting, Fleeting Light—Imagery of Time in Chinese Art, featuring 24 rare ink paintings, porcelain, lacquerware, and jade dating from the late Yuan dynasty to the modern era. The exhibition highlights the internationally acclaimed Space Series by Liu Kuo-sung, revered as the father of modern ink painting. The seasons, landscapes, immortal realms, and cosmos shown here invite visitors to think anew about the meaning of time.
Curated by the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries at Lingnan University, and generously supported by loans of precious antiques and contemporary works from the Chamber of Young Snow, the exhibition explores how Chinese art transforms the abstract notion of time into a perceptible visual language.
The exhibition is organised into three sections, presenting different dimensions of time in Chinese art.
‘A Year in View’
These flower and bird and landscape paintings, and the seasonal motifs on porcelain and lacquerware, look at the Chinese understanding of time as both cyclical and linear. Flowers and natural landscapes with distinctive characteristics throughout the year have long been used for emotional expression.
‘Unending’
Focusing on porcelain and jade, these images of eternity depict mythical beasts, their spatial arrangement on objects, and the material qualities of jade. In the decorative arts, eternity signifies the unbroken continuation of an ideal state.
‘The Course of the Sun’
In Liu Kuo-sung’s Space Series, the relationship between the sun and the earth is reinterpreted, expanding the conceptual boundaries of time.
Exhibition Details:
Fleeting, Fleeting Light—Imagery of Time in Chinese Art runs from 5 March to 4 September 2026. Admission is free. Details are as follows:
Venue: | Chamber of Young Snow Art Exhibition Hall, 3/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building (South Wing), Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong SAR |
Opening hours: | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Closed on Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays) |
Enquiries: | (852) 2616-7466 |
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Reservation link: | https://forms.office.com/r/6qfiGCrrKJ?origin=lprLink (Visitors should book their visit at least three working days in advance.) |
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