wamono art presents Echoes of Time, a duo exhibition by Hong Kong artist Rebeka Tam and Japanese artist Shiori Kaneko. Rebeka’s work draws from historical traces found on Hong Kong’s public walls, while Kaneko’s sculptures emerge from imagined timelines within abandoned buildings. Together, they reveal how ceramics can hold both transformation and stillness, capturing the fantasy of fixing time itself.

Rebeka Tam’s practice begins with walls that evolve constantly as advertisements are removed, paint is reapplied, and traces accumulate or fade. Over repeated visits, she observes how time inscribes itself through subtle marks and erasures, then translates these observations into ceramic surfaces that do not replicate real walls but evoke imagined ones—quiet, layered, and resonant with the city’s shifting histories. The exhibition presents her own photographs alongside her ceramic works, inviting viewers to slow down their pace and attune to Hong Kong’s hidden rhythms and the delicate traces of change.

Shiori Kaneko’s sculptures arise from her encounters with decaying architecture. For her, ruins are living timelines that hold past, present, and future at once. She imagines the former life of each structure, the transformations it has undergone, and the future it will meet. Her ceramic forms resemble fantastical ruin scapes where worn surfaces and shifting contours feel inscribed by time. Kaneko embraces the beauty of aging and the inevitability of change, expressing figures that “live on by decaying.”

In this exhibition, the ever‑shifting flow of time is quietly anchored in the enduring medium of ceramics—a material that retains its form across decades. Each artist brings her own sensibility and originality to the exploration of memory, traces, and the fragile gaze cast upon a world in constant transition, guiding viewers into distinct narrative realms. Echoes of Time invites audiences to immerse themselves in a fantastical space where time seems to be held within the permanence of fired clay.