Canadian-born, South Asian photographer Alex Huda announces a three-venue solo exhibition tour of his critically acclaimed portrait  series, We Are the Things Monsters Love. The project will be presented at WURE AREA  (Kowloon Bay, August 1–9), Tomorrow Maybe at Eaton HK (Jordan, August 15–30), and  ACO Art Space (Wanchai, September 12–27).

Developed in collaboration with Holok Chen and the Voidpunks—a community of  LGBTQ+ individuals, neurodivergent minds, and creative outcasts in Hong Kong who  forge non-human identities known as Voidsonas—We Are the Things Monsters Love is a  documentary portraiture project that fuses ancient Chinese shamanic traditions with  the city's emerging Voidpunk counterculture.

Reimagining the Nine Deities from Qu Yuan's 3rd-century BCE poem, Jiu Ge (The Nine  Songs), as cyberpunk monsters who embrace the Voidpunks, the work explores how  individuals rejected by society can transmute the alien parts of their identities into  sources of divine power and unconventional intimacy. Holok Chen, a well-known figure  in Hong Kong's alternative and queer scenes, serves as the Oracle of this community  and was instrumental in shaping the project's collaborative direction. 

The project was developed during Huda's Director's Fellowship at the International  Center of Photography in New York. The resulting 25 large-scale prints, shot on analog  medium format and thermal camera, are co-authored acts of sovereignty where every  subject held full agency over their representation. The portraits visualize the invisible  "divine energy" flowing through the unchosen, offering a sanctuary where becoming a  "monster" is not despair—but a radical reclamation of power. 

This exhibition tour is produced with the generous support of the Canada Council  for the Arts.