Gallery Exit is pleased to announce Time objects, a solo exhibition by Dony Cheng Hung. In this new body of work, Cheng deepens her ongoing inquiry into urban existence, perception, and temporality.

Cheng reflects on the shift from a past in which time was non-uniform, repeatedly reactivated through ritual and architecture, to a present dominated by speed, measurement, and constant management. This exploration is inspired by her current reading of Mircea Eliade's Traité d'histoire des religions and Paul Virilio's L'esthétique de la disparition. Her earlier investigations into the dialogue between artificial and natural light, along with latent rituals that reconnect us to nature within everyday routines, now converge into a visual language centered on the objectification of present-day temporality.

Cheng found particular resonance in astronomical diagrams, especially moon-phase charts. By translating the moon into spheres placed on the ground, time is detached from nature, spatialized, and treated as a tangible form within the built environment. In Stretched Duration, a single dark sphere rests within an enclosed architectural space. Time appears suspended, held in extended stillness. In Time Without Sequence, the phases lose their cyclical order and scatter across the ground, evoking the fragmented, fleeting pace of contemporary life.

These compositions reveal a tension between natural time and abstract time. In response to this condition, Cheng uses Musou Black, an ultra-light-absorbing pigment, to create a sense of pause. This blackness stores a quiet desire for calm, both in space and in time. Crafted with airbrushed acrylics and textured surface treatments, the paintings resist the smooth detachment of screen-based media. Traces of hand-applied marks remain visible, inviting haptic engagement and bodily presence.

Time objects invites viewers to inhabit time differently—not as a line to measure or manage, but as an ambient field through which we might once again sense our place within something larger and unresolved.