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When nature’s tranquility is replaced by the aridness of industrial society, how does the artist respond via the medium of ink to the environment radically altered by climate change?

Contemporary ink painter Yuan Hui-Li, ideologically inclined by her perception of tradition, history, and context, has long been on the path to innovation. Her second solo exhibition at the Tina Keng Gallery, Moist and Burnt: As Ink Breathes continues the artist’s exploration of ink and possibilities of modernity within this medium, as she draws parallels between the condition of air and the two physical …