Two landscape films relate a story of exile in this single-gallery exhibition. These twinned works convey the escape of artist Tiffany Sia’s family from Cold War-era Shanghai to Hong Kong and vivify what Sia refers to as “no place,” locales made spectral through violence and forgetting.

A Child Already Knows is recounted as if from the perspective of Sia’s father as a child of nine. Between the images––clips drawn from Mao-era cartoons, intertitles, and newsreel––the work recreates a necessarily fragmented and flickering memory. 

The three-channel video Journey From North to South (2024) traces a road trip that begins in New York and ends in Mississippi, attempting a reenactment of a southward exile using another landscape as proxy. The camera barely rests, capturing 22 hours of passing highways.

Tiffany Sia is an artist, filmmaker, and writer who was born in Hong Kong and currently lives and works in New York.