"Seeing Frances's Breathing Landscapes reminded me of the exhibition of Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama. Moriyama's photographic method is to have no method — the simpler, the more direct, the better. Just like Frances's work. The essence of photography lies in the unseen."   — Venerable Changlin

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Over more than a decade, Frances Tong ventured into the highest altitudes of Japan, China, and the United States — undeterred by freezing cold and blizzards, on skis and snowshoes. She looked beyond the surface of the landscape, transforming fog, snow, and ice into ink-like abstract worlds that illuminate the boundless possibilities of being alive.

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The extremity of a blizzard is not so different from the world we live in now — energy crises, social unrest, the ground shifting beneath us. What is threatened is not some distant future, but the most fundamental of human needs: a place to breathe, to feel safe, to call home.

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Breathing Landscapes is conceived as an immersive installation — offering what Hong Kong rarely does: space. Space to rest, to look within, to breathe.

In a world unravelling — where is home? Some have left in search of dreams, adrift on uncertain waters. Others have stayed, only to find that home is no longer home. Breathing Landscapes invites you to step into the mountains, and rediscover the answer that has always been within.