Alex Huda: We Are the Things Monsters Love

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Canadian-born, South Asian photographer Alex Huda announces a three-venue solo exhibition tour of his critically acclaimed portrait series, We Are the Things Monsters Love. The project will be presented at WURE AREA (Kowloon Bay, August 1–9), Tomorrow Maybe at Eaton HK (Jordan, August 15–30), and ACO Art Space (Wanchai, September 12–27).

Developed in collaboration with Holok Chen and the Voidpunks—a community of LGBTQ+ individuals, neurodivergent minds, and creative outcasts in Hong Kong who forge non-human identities known as Voidsonas—We Are the Things Monsters Love is a documentary portraiture project that fuses ancient Chinese shamanic traditions with the city’s emerging Voidpunk counterculture.

The project was developed during Huda’s Director’s Fellowship at the International Center of Photography in New York. The resulting 25 large-scale prints, shot on analog medium format and thermal camera, are co-authored acts of sovereignty where every subject held full agency over their representation. The portraits visualize the invisible “divine energy” flowing through the unchosen, offering a sanctuary where becoming a “monster” is not despair—but a radical reclamation of power.