The Unforgiving Lines

For Unforgiving Lines, Xin Harper-Little’s solo art exhibition at Kings Mews Studios in December 2025, I created the spatial and atmospheric direction of the show.

My role was to respond to the emotional world of Xin’s paintings and translate it into space. I considered how the audience would enter the work, move through it, feel it, and become part of it - not as passive viewers, but as bodies moving inside the atmosphere of the exhibition.
Using fabric, light, objects, paper, shadow, live dance, and the movement of the audience, I wanted the paintings to come off the walls - to extend into the room, into the body, and into the atmosphere around them.

As part of the exhibition, I also created Memory of Movement, a separate moving installation made from Xin’s handmade rice-paper ink drawings of dancers in motion. Suspended in space, the drawings formed a fragile, shifting room of gesture and trace - connecting line, body, shadow, and memory.

For behind-the-scenes images and show highlights, visit my Unforgiving Lines curatorial highlights on Instagram.