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Blindspot Gallery is pleased to debut Wing Po So’s solo exhibition “Polyglot”, on view from 17 June to 9 August 2025, featuring her recent body of work. So’s intuitive approach towards art-making is influenced by her formative encounters with Chinese medicine, characterized by a meticulous observation of nature and its interconnectivity. She wields the materia medica derived from our living environment as vocabularies in her conceptual works, seeking to excavate the inner logic and systems latent in our surroundings. So shows a distinct sensitivity, curiosity, and fantasy towards nature and the cosmos, all through a pharmacological lens.
“Polyglot” refers to an individual of multilingual proficiency, and here, So draws a parallel between materials and language. “Polyglot” encapsulates how materials embody the multiple “languages” of nature’s patterns. Akin to how languages carry their own logic, codes, and structures, materials embody their own rules and systems. So’s works accentuate the patterns, forces and interconnectivities hidden in our everyday.
By foregrounding “material as language,” “Polyglot” invites viewers to not only attune to what is being said but to how it is being said—through grain, fiber, residue, tension, and transformation. Just as language evolves over time and use, materials have the ability to metamorphose, combine, and regenerate, embodying how nature is an archive of living potentials.
