“燊 ”(San) – fiery and exuberant – is in Tang Kwong San’s name, and it is also a vitality that he seeks in artmaking.

The artist wanders among the trees in the city at night, and he uses flash to capture those exotic tropical plants transplanted from foreign regions to Hong Kong. In the series Garden Night (2023), these trees seem to be bursting with dazzling light, burningly with enthusiasm and mystery in darkness, blurring the boundary between reality and dreams. In this moment,

the world falls into implicity.