Gallery Exit presents Lulu Ngie's solo exhibition Lines of breath, featuring recent works alongside selected pieces from across her career. Working in Chinese ink and oil painting, Ngie explores minimalist line-making, using single brush strokes that capture her breathing rhythm and emotional state. These gestures bring life and movement to her painted figures.

The artist deliberately removes backgrounds, shadows, and textures, making the body itself the space where her figures exist. She focuses on the edges and outlines of bodies, treating them as containers for emotion. Through subtle gestures and poses, she reveals inner feelings of anxiety, fear, and vulnerability. These flowing lines carry traces of past experiences while recording present breath and mental states—the essence of Lines of breath.

Ngie doesn't paint as an outside observer but becomes the experience itself, projecting emotions directly onto canvas and paper. She sees the body as an inner universe full of unknown possibilities. Drawing on traditional Chinese painting techniques—the decisive single stroke (yi bi) and strategic empty space—she reinterprets Eastern aesthetics through a contemporary lens. Her lines shape forms while exploring questions of identity and self-discovery.

The exhibition creates dialogues between works from different periods and mediums. Streaming and Stirred are displayed together, using bold lines to express how bodily sensations constantly change, with each feeling becoming a different figure. 'The weight of clouds' explores contradictions between lightness and heaviness, showing liquid-like human forms carrying seemingly weightless clouds.

Ngie's practice offers deep insights into human psychology and emotion. Through minimalist brushwork, she transforms the body into a poetic space for expressing inner experience, capturing life's most delicate perceptions and states of being through the movement of lines.