Tsz Wai Pun & Coşkun Güçlü: Bones of Our Land

WMA presents Bones of Our Land, a new commissioned project for its 2025/26 theme Hope. Created by artist Tsz Wai Pun and ecologist Coşkun Güçlü, the project focuses on a single hillside undergoing ecological restoration on the Northern slopes of Tai Mo Shan, tracing its ecological and human history and reading its soil as a record of recent ecological change and deep evolutionary time. Through its layers and transformations, the project rethinks time as something that accumulates at multiple scales—and considers how this way of seeing might help us remain attentive to one another and move forward together, even in the midst of uncertainty. Through film, sound, archival materials, fieldwork, and soil DNA analysis, the artists approach the hillside as a palimpsest—a landscape continuously rewritten across centuries and beyond. Volcanic geology, agricultural history, destructive hill fires, colonial intervention, and ongoing ecological restoration are all layered within the same landscape. In this reading, a single hillside becomes a site of entanglement, where past, present, and future do not unfold in sequence but coexist and refract through one another. Bones of Our Land invites us to listen anew to the soil, the forest, and the living archive buried beneath our feet. Co-curated by Louise Fedotov-Clements and Chloe Chow, the exhibition opens on Saturday, 13 June, with an artist and curator talk taking place. A series of members-only activities, including field visits and experimental performances, will be announced soon.