‘CHERISHED CHAMBERS’
Brings together seven London-based artists of East and Southeast Asian diaspora to explore the body’s relationship to shifting environments, sensory memory, and cultural inheritance.
Co-curated by
Dana Chang
@danachang.art
Natalie Chia
@isa.chia
This exhibition is kindly sponsored by Art of Wine @artofwine.art
featuring
Kai-Hsuan Chang
Joyce Oh
Jinseul Park
Julian Udine
Zhaobo Yang
Nohana Sayama
YiJia Wu
EXHIBITION
28 – 31 May
12 – 6 pm
PREVIEW
Wednesday 27 May
6 – 8 pm
TICKNER BELL YOUNG & LEBENSON
GALLERY46
46 ASHFIELD STREET
LONDON
E1 2AJ
Dates
Exhibition Dates
28 – 31 May 2026
12 – 6 pm
Sunday
12 – 3 pm
Preview
27 May 2026
6.00 – 8.00 pm
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Artists
Kai-Hsuan Chang @kaihsuan_chang
Joyce Oh @joyce.oh.mov
Jinseul Park @jinthelier
Julian Udine @julian.udine.art
Zhaobo Yang @zhaobo_yang
Nohana Sayama @nhn_sym
YiJia Wu @ikeeabug
Curators
Dana Chang
is an early-career curator from Taiwan trained in the research-led, archive-focused and critically engaged environment of BA Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins. Her current curatorial practice engages with generational memory, cultural inheritance, displacement, and material lineage while approaching the exhibition space itself as a curatorial layer. Chang’s ongoing research draws from her Taiwanese indigenous heritage, focusing on the reclamation and re-emergence of cultural heritage through contemporary art, while supporting Asian diasporic voices within wider international contexts. Through Cherished Chambers, she further develops a curatorial approach grounded in sensory and spatial experience.
Natalie Chia
works across photography, spatial research, and speculative environments, exploring how cultural experiences are translated and preserved through images, objects, and space. Drawing from her Peranakan Malaysian heritage and domestic archives, her practice examines diasporic memory through material textures, architecture, and digital reconstruction. A graduate of BA Fashion Photography at the London College of Fashion, she is continuing her research through an MA in Interior Design at the Royal College of Art. Chia is dedicated to fostering Peranakan culture and supporting emerging Asian artists internationally. Her curatorial practice approaches exhibitions as spatial and sensory experiences shaped by memory and environment.
Information
Originating from personal genealogies shaped by minority cultural inheritances, Taiwanese, Indigenous Paiwan for Chang and Malaysian, Peranakan Nyonya for Chia, Cherished Chambers expands outward to consider broader Asian diasporic experiences within London’s multicultural landscape. These histories are layered presences informed by their shared spatial approach. Chang and Chia explore exhibition space itself as an invisible architectural and curatorial layer, tracing the unstable relationships between body, memory, environment, and inheritance.
Set across GALLERY46’s twin Georgian townhouses, the exhibition unfolds through a sequence of interconnected chambers. As visitors navigate the gallery, each room reverberates with the intimate stories and memories held within the works. These are the moments to be cherished, before they slip away if left untouched or unspoken. Each chamber therefore becomes a threshold, marking movement between past and present. From intimate domestic settings to the wider ecological and historical imaginaries, the exhibition approaches recollection through fragments, inherited forms, and transforming landscapes across paintings, sculptures, animations, video installations, and sound. Throughout the exhibition, familiar objects such as bowls, duvets, pillows, and doors are recontextualised, carrying traces of displacement and lived experience.
The opening night includes a food installation by Yoma Liang, where miniature edible forms disrupt immediate recognition and invite closer attention. It invites viewers to look beyond surface perception towards the layered memories and histories embedded within familiar forms.
Together with seven artists — Jinseul Park, Julian Udine, Zhaobo Yang, Nohana Sayama, YiJia Wu, Kai-Hsuan Chang, and Joyce Oh — Cherished Chambers unfolds through shifting relationships between the body, environment, memory, and material transformation. Embarking into the exhibition through Zhaobo Yang’s ceramic boats — fragmentary vessels that hold the tension between stagnation and departure, evoking how history and memory together shape personal, familial, and collective fragments of the past. To continue, Nohana Sayama’s vignette-like Gansai watercolour paintings portray traces of existence through remembered spaces that once had to be left behind, in the personal yearning of holding on to those moments. Jinseul Park paints fragmented body segments in wounded hues on soft sculpture, in the forms of pillows, duvets, and doors, that evoke domestic spaces. In her works, the use of ink and traditional Korean pigments on Hanji (Korean paper) evokes diasporic memory and the persistence of inherited histories. The relationship between body and environment is further explored in Julian Udine’s sculptural installation: a suspended anthropomorphic spine that dissolves boundaries among organism, environment, and human identity, using Philippine-made abaca fibre.
In Kai-Hsuan Chang’s mixed-media works, traditional Paiwan craft elements such as wood, fabric, rope, and bells are used to explore material transformation through a reimagined Taiwanese Indigenous approach that evokes a sense of home. In YiJia Wu’s sculptures of everyday objects, the boundaries of concepts of home, memory and migration are tested through material and shapealteration, making them absurd, nostalgic and present. The exhibition is accompanied by Joyce Oh’s soundscape, which circulates through the space and connects the chambers through an elusive auditory presence.
