([[o]]) Bells: The Resonance of Perceptions

([[o]]) 鈴:感知共振

Opening: 30/01/2026, FRI, 1900-2100

Date: 30/1-22/2/2026 (Wed-Sun)

About the Exhibition

([[o]]) Bells: Resonance of Perceptions is a solo exhibition by Tang Tsz Wai Cheri, presenting the birth and convergence of sounds yet to be formed. As a quiet response to the city’s rhythm and flow, it is a practice of focused discipline: patiently listening to the latent resonance between mind and clay before it is ever fired. This practice of listening to the soundless originates in the clear, immediate acoustics of childhood: the distinct thud of rubber and ring of metal in a playground, an early awakening to how materials speak.

In the studio, this listening becomes tactile perception. At the wheel, porcelain, stoneware, and grogged clay each reveal their distinct physicality, subtly foretelling their future voices. The bells that emerge are forms shaped by imagined sound, giving rise to a living acoustic archive—one that grows, recording the latent potential of matter.

The exhibition is composed of two interwoven parts: a series of works realized by the artist alone, and two collaborative works developed from this archive. A responsive sound environment, created with engineer Dmitry Po, takes the archive as its core; its tones transform quietly with micro-events in the gallery—a shift of air, a change of light, each giving rise to nuanced variations. A video work made with dancer Bowie Siu transposes the making of bells into a vocabulary of movement, materializing waiting into bodily expression.

([[o]])鈴:感知共振 是鄧芷蔚的個展,是各種未成之聲的誕生與碰撞。作為對城市節奏流變的靜謐回應,它是一個專注的修習實踐:耐心聆聽燒製之前,心靈與陶土之間的潛在共鳴。「無聲之聲」的實踐,源自童年清晰而直接的聲響經驗:遊樂場中橡膠的悶響與金屬的清音,正是物質如何言語的啟蒙。

在工作室裡,這份聆聽化為觸覺感知。在拉坯機上,瓷土、陶土與摻砂陶泥各自展現其獨特物性,隱約預示著它們未來的聲音。由此成形的鈴,其形態由想像中的聲響塑造,從而建立起一個鮮活的聲音檔案——能夠持續增長、紀錄物質潛能。

此次展覽由兩個互相交織的部分構成:一部分是一系列由藝術家獨立完成的聲音檔案,以及兩件由此檔案延伸、與其他創作者共同發展的創作。與工程師 Dmitry Po 合作的響應式聲音裝置,以此檔案為核心,其聲調隨著展場中微小事件而產生變化——一陣氣流,一道光影,足以誕生千般幻變。與舞者 Bowie Siu 創作的影像作品,則將製鈴的過程轉譯為一套動作的語彙,將「等待」具象化為身體動態。

Artworks

1. ([[kines o thesia]])

2025

single-channel video, color, 14’13”

2. ( ( o > ) ( < o ) )

2025

wooden oval table, wooden mallets, parts of call bells, Arduino, wires

3. park

2025

photobook

4. ([[o]]) Bells

2024-2025

porcelain, stoneware, clay slips, parts of call bell, solenoids, Arduino, wires, PCB boards and wooden mallets

5. ([[o]]) Bells [Lai Chi Wo]

2025

wild clay, clay slips, parts of Call Bell, Solenoids, Arduino, Wires, PCB boards and Wooden mallets

6. ([[o]]) on ([[o]])

2025

stoneware, ceramics, transducers, sound installation