The act of reading proposes an indexicality, an interpretation of the external world where a line between points of reality can be drawn to elucidate meaning. We speak of reading texts, reading signs, reading between the lines, and reading out loud. In the appearing incoherence, inconsistencies, and idiosyncrasies brought together through the artistic mediums of painting and video—by A.3.Lingo and Sunday Lai, respectively—we see a doubling. What we see is first channelled through the artist as the medium, and only secondly, it is channelled through their practices. The repetition rife in their work moves not as metaphor but as a real attempt at being reality itself. They are recordings born of rituals crafted by the artists, and ritual recordings in their production method, that is, through habit. The seeming duality of the works, notably light and darkness, project a search for equitable balance, yet its imperative lies in its representation of the contexts in which experiential material is born from just these idiosyncrasies.

Two Readings by A.3.Lingo and Sunday Lai bring together dual artistic practices that interpret the signs in our world. Through meditation, Lingo paints records of her visions drawn from rural surroundings. Her twenty-two work series Free 22 is being presented in its entirety for the first time, and is a visual recording of her spiritual journey. The imagery and symbolism we see is unified on the pictorial plane through fragments of meditative visions, environmental experience, and personal introspection. In looking within, she seeks to find order through personal struggle and patterns in natural occurrences. Through observation, Lai makes digital recordings of momentary alignment in urban settings. Her new work Rebellious Beats is composed of recordings she made of flickering lights over the course of three years. In line with her previous video works, Lai finds electric eccentricities in everyday life. Moments of rupture, such as the flickering of lights and the sequenced opening of automatic doors, become moments of attunement in her eyes. In looking without, she seeks to find order through the editing and manipulation of recorded instances. By reading coincidence as signal and narrative, A.3.Lingo and Lai make magic with the material offered by Hong Kong.

閱讀的行為提供一種指引性，一種解釋外部世界的方式：在現實點之間繪製一條線，以闡明意義。我們談論閱讀（reading）一詞，可以是理解文本、詮釋符號、領悟言外之意和大聲朗讀等意思。萊連和黎朗生分別通過繪畫和錄像兩種藝術媒介，呈現不連貫、不一致和獨特之處，我們在當中看到了一種加倍現象。這現象首先是通過藝術家本人作為媒介連結，其次才是連結上他們的藝術實踐。他們作品中充斥的重複性不是一種隱喻，而是一種試圖轉化為現實的嘗試。這些藝術品是藝術家精心製作的儀式記錄，亦是其將創作融入日常習慣的儀式記錄。作品中表現出明顯的二元性，尤其是光明與黑暗，投射出了一種尋求公平對等的探索，然而這二元性存在的必要性在於其代表的獨特語境，而作品中的經驗材料正是從這些語境中誕生。

萊連與黎朗生的雙個展《兩則閱讀》匯集了她們的雙重藝術實踐，詮釋了我們世界中的符號。 萊連以鄉郊環境為靈感，繪畫了她冥想而生的心像。她的廿二件作品系列《Free 22》首次完整展示，作為她精神之旅的視覺記錄。我們在畫布上所看到的圖像和符號，為她統合冥想心象、環境體驗和個人反思的片段。她深入內省並試圖在個人掙扎和自然現象的圖樣中尋找規律。黎朗生對城市環境進行觀察，將當中的瞬間序列以數碼記錄。她的新作《Rebellious Beats》，由她在三年間拍攝閃爍燈光的記錄組成。新作如黎朗生以往的錄像作品一樣，在日常生活中發現了電氣的怪異現象。這些現象：閃爍燈光和依序開啟的自動門，如同現實中的斷裂時刻，卻成為她眼中的調和時刻。她深入外省並試圖在剪輯和操縱現象的記錄中尋找規律。萊連和黎朗生通過將巧合解讀為信號和敘事，利用香港提供的材料制造魔法。