Chan Hau Chun
《記憶座標》|  Map of Traces
February 21 – April 4, 2026

Map of Traces (2025) is a 29-minute film by Hong Kong artist Chan Hau Chun. It was recorded on MiniDV, Google Street View, police surveillance cameras, and various phones. Its primary subject is human relationships in the wake of the 2019 demonstrations. Its many opposites include redaction and revelation, exile and homecoming, the fugitive and the fixed. Its cardinal tension lies in the gap between authorized narrative and lived experience.

Mask, umbrella, camera, uniform, glasses, backpack, barricades. The grain of memory, a low-hanging fog. How best to distinguish between what’s happened, what’s here, and what’s around the bend? Throughout, the tink tink tink of the crosswalk signal. When to stop, when to go, when to run.

Map of Traces plays every half hour on the half hour.
Cushion Works is open from 12 to 5pm on Fridays and Saturdays.

Those who wish to view the work collectively are invited to attend the final screening on Saturday, February 21, at 4:30pm.

Chan Hau Chun (b. 1989) lives and works in Hong Kong. She received her BA from City University of Hong Kong in 2015. Her solo exhibitions include Map of Traces, Empty Gallery (2025) and Silent Sojourns, WMA Space, both (2024). She has participated in group exhibitions including Breakdown Playlist at Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, Under Light of Moon and Sun at 99 Canal, New York (2025); Tsaiyun (Rosy-Cloud) Bridge / Forget Each Other in the Rivers and Lakes, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Norway (2023); An Individual as Society, Centre for Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China (2019); and Drifting Borders, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong (2018).

Her films have been screened at various festivals including Toronto International Film Festival (Canada), Golden Horse Awards (Taipei), Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF), Image Forum Festival (Tokyo), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany), Hong Kong ifva Festival, and True/False Film Fest (Missouri).

Special thanks to the artist and Empty Gallery