Pluck the Flower While It Blooms | Pigo Lin Solo Exhibition

Pluck the Flower While It Blooms
Pigo Lin Solo Exhibition
21 November — 6 December 2026
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The Tang-dynasty poem “The Gold-Threaded Robe” urges: pluck the flower while it may be plucked, before only an empty branch remains. For a thousand years the lines have reminded us to seize our youth. Pigo Lin changes the final character from “branch” (枝) to “juice” (汁) — one character that turns a gentle poem about time into the frankest, and funniest, confession about the body and desire.

Exhibition Statement
Turning a classical verse on its head, the exhibition explores the restlessness, exploration and taboo of adolescence as the body awakens and desire first stirs. Youth is a secret “private garden” where buds first open, full of intense curiosity and longing. Yet under social norms and the moral gaze, desire is often tied to secrecy and shame, so that exploring oneself comes mixed with unease and guilt. Through erotic works in many dimensions, the exhibition gives form to the stirrings, shame and fantasies hidden in the dark, and invites viewers into this private garden to tear off moral labels and look again at how adolescence gropes towards the body and desire. Desire is like a flower: it blooms in its season — it need not be hidden in shame, nor wither under repression. This is a journey of liberation: dismantling shame and embracing one’s true self and bodily instinct.

The Space
At the centre of the gallery, Roman columns and planting under rippling water-light evoke a Western-style garden. The world of our longings is never truly still; it keeps flowing and breathing among the flowers of feeling, until the day you bid this world farewell.

This exhibition contains adult themes; recommended for ages 18+.