CHAT

Snuggle and Stitch brings together local childhood textiles from the 1930s to the 2020s, featuring heirloom garments, ready-made fashion, mass-produced toys, artisanal dolls and hands-on activities.

In the exhibition, we explore textiles as living pathways that intertwine into spiritual maps. They weave threads between people and place, ancestors and ecologies, the visible and the unseen, softness and strength, while opening up futures and possibilities of living, relating, and caring for the world.

This exhibition showcases Kazakh artist Gulnur Mukazhanova’s diverse creations from across her career, including felt paintings, felt sculptures, patchwork installations, photography and video.

Tidal Weavers unfolds as a process and generative space of shared memory and interwoven knowledge. Central to it is an artist exchange between grassroots organisations across Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan to cultivate mutual learning and long-term collaboration.

CHAT invited Hong Kong artist Sara Tse to explore how nature and textiles weave into people’s memories and, during the process, unravel and reweave communal experiences by collecting oral histories and co-creating with the public.