Gallery Exit presents Receding scenery, an exhibition by Hazel Wong Mei Yin featuring a new body of work focused on movement and transition. The title describes a familiar physical experience: as a vehicle moves forward, the scenery outside appears to drift backward. Rather than nostalgia, Wong’s works grow from this shifting perspective, reflecting the uncertainty, thoughts, and emotions of being in transit.

Wong’s practice is shaped by her recent life between Sapporo and Hong Kong. Long hours spent travelling—as both passenger and driver—have turned the interior of the vehicle into a space for quiet observation. Frequent relocation has made movement central to her work. While the landscapes she paints refer to real places, they also carry personal memory and feeling, revealing her ongoing interest in distance, time, and human connection.

This exhibition marks a new phase in Wong’s practice. Compared to her earlier work, these paintings place greater emphasis on the relationship between outer landscapes and inner states of mind. Working with acrylic on carefully prepared wooden panels, she builds and then sands the layers of paint to create soft, restrained surfaces with emotional depth. Images of snowfall, night scenes, and open skies capture fleeting moments and the passage of time. Alongside the paintings, Wong presents recent experiments in printmaking, particularly mezzotint. Drawn to its rich blacks and subtle tonal shifts, she finds the depth of the medium closely aligns with the sensibility of her paintings.

'Receding Scenery' unfolds as a quiet journey of presence. Viewers are invited to move through the exhibition at their own pace, encountering introspective landscapes shaped by movement and uncertainty.