L GALLERY presents <Bonvoyage>, an international exchange exhibition organized in collaboration with Lei Xiang Gallery, Taipei. Bringing together Sumisha from Japan, Fu Yu from China, and Huang Po-Hsun from Taiwan, the exhibition marks the first exchange project between L GALLERY and Lei Xiang Gallery and opens a dialogue between distinct artistic practices across East Asia.

The title <Bonvoyage>—a phrase traditionally offered to someone departing on a journey—extends beyond the physical act of traveling. Here, the journey becomes a movement between places, memories, cultures, and inner worlds. Each artist begins from a different cultural and personal context, yet their works reveal how individual experiences can move beyond geographic boundaries and find resonance elsewhere.

Sumisha’s introspective figures, Fu Yu’s puppet-like characters, and Huang Po-Hsun’s expansive, luminous worlds emerge from markedly different visual languages. Yet beneath these differences runs a shared attention to the relationship between the individual and the world surrounding them. Feelings of solitude, vulnerability, freedom, memory, and hope appear in different forms, allowing the works to encounter one another without requiring a single narrative or perspective.

Rather than reducing the three practices to their national origins, <Bonvoyage> considers how cultural memory is transformed through individual experience. Images and symbols rooted in particular places gradually acquire new meanings as they travel, while emotions that initially appear deeply personal become recognizable across cultural boundaries.

An exchange exhibition is itself a form of passage. Works leave the environments in which they were created and enter another city, another space, and another context of viewing. In this movement, meaning is not simply transported intact; it is expanded and reconfigured through new encounters.

<Bonvoyage> invites viewers to consider this shared space as a temporary point of arrival and departure. Through three distinct practices, the exhibition traces the ways in which art can travel between cultures while carrying something more fundamental with it—the emotions, memories, and experiences through which we recognize one another.

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Sumisha (Japan) / Sumisha creates acrylic paintings centered on distinctive figures characterized by disproportionately large eyes, using their gaze as a means of expressing emotions that remain difficult to communicate through words. Set within dreamlike environments of soft yet vivid color, her figures inhabit a delicate space between intimacy and isolation, where tenderness coexists with anxiety, vulnerability, and solitude. The exaggerated eyes function not simply as a stylistic feature, but as points of contact between the figure and the viewer, transforming the act of looking into a quiet form of communication.

Fu Yu (China) / Fu Yu draws from childhood memory, fairy tales, and the visual culture of his native Shanxi, often incorporating marionette-like figures inspired by traditional puppet performances. Suspended by strings, these characters become metaphors for the invisible forces that shape individual lives, from family and education to broader social structures. Beneath the playful and fantastical appearance of his works lies an exploration of personal agency, uncertainty, and the tension between being guided and acting freely, while humor and imagination prevent these reflections from settling into complete pessimism.

Huang Po-Hsun (Taiwan) / Huang Po-Hsun constructs expansive and luminous worlds through vivid color, intricate detail, personal memory, and imagined landscapes, often returning to the themes of abundance and freedom. Recurring motifs such as swallows and fish embody contrasting conditions of movement and restriction, suggesting that freedom is never absolute but continuously negotiated. While his paintings initially appear rich, fantastical, and visually seductive, they also contain an underlying sense of solitude and uncertainty, allowing beauty, ambiguity, and emotional distance to coexist within the same pictorial space.