Why do trees grow till the end of time?
樹為何要生長，直到時間盡頭？
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17 January – 14 February 2026
13/F, Gallery EXIT Gallery EXIT is pleased to present its latest group exhibition, ‘Why do trees grow till the end of time?’. Taking the tree as a central metaphor, the exhibition brings together both new and past works by 29 artists. The following is the exhibition vignette: “Why do trees grow till the end of time?” The banyan outside the café doesn't know it's January. Doesn't know the year, the wars, the algorithms. A man inside is crying into a video call—someone's left someone, the usual geometry of departure—and the tree is doing what it did in 1997 and will do, presumably, next Tuesday. I used to think persistence was a kind of stubbornness. Now I suspect it's closer to forgetting. The tree has forgotten to stop. Forgotten to check the news, to ask whether growth still makes sense given the circumstances. It just extends another inch of root toward the water main, cracks the pavement with the slow violence of indifference. A woman walks past with a sign about the end of everything. The tree grows over her shadow. This is not hope. Hope is a human sickness, a fever of the “maybe”. The tree operates below hope, in the basement of being, where the only question is: “is there light?” And if yes: “more of me, then.” Till the end of time. As if time ends. As if the tree would notice. We turn 18 this year. That's the shape of it, I think. The trees aren't optimists. They're just not paying attention to us. Which might be the same thing. Artists 藝術家 b.wing @b.wingb.wing CHENG Chit Yan 鄭喆欣 @naytihc Dony CHENG Hung 鄭虹 @donycheng CHEUNG Tsz Ki 張梓祈 @cheungtszki_print CHO Wing Ki 曹穎褀 @winki.cho Dave CHOW Yui Wang 周睿宏 @davechowyuiwang Hilarie HON 韓幸霖 @hilariehon Cami HUI 許韻瑜 @usercamii Jeremy IP 葉偉靖 @iwcpaint KAIAROONSUTH Chonticha 吳瀞涓 @paintingutgut Tobe KAN 簡喬倩 @t______e Sarah LAI 黎卓華 @laicheukwah LI Hiuwa 李曉華 @hiuwali LI Ning 李寧 @liningtattoo Dallas LEE Chiu Sun 李昭辰 @_dallasy Giraffe LEUNG Lok Hei 梁洛熙 @gllh_art Livy LEUNG Hoi Nga 梁凱雅 @livyleunghn Mindy LUI 雷恩兒 @mindylui714 LIN Xue 林穴 Carmen NG 吳嘉敏 @carmenng.art Chino NG 吳國璋 @chino_nkc NGAI Wing Lam 蟻穎琳 @ngaiwinglam Ashley NGAW 柯曉楠 @ashleyngaw Lulu NGIE 倪鷺露 @lulu.ngie TANG Kwong San 鄧廣燊 @kwong.san Cam WONG 黃麗茵 @incomplete_moment Glary WU 胡愷昕 @wuhoiyan.glary YAU Kwok Keung 丘國強 @yaukkeung YUNG Chung Kong 翁松江 @yung_chungkong |
