HART HAUS is pleased to present “and i love you dearly”, a solo exhibition by Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho to conclude his international artist residency at HART HAUS over the period of February 2026 till date. The exhibition features a compelling new body of work that intricately weaves together poetry, text, and painting, reimagining the canvas as a site to examine nostalgia, memory, and identity.
Across the exhibition, Ho approaches landscapes where beauty carries both the weight of memory and the architecture of romantic self-fiction. Ho considers how once-familiar places survive in the mind, using text and imagery as landscape, slowly altered by time, displacement, and the distortions of nostalgia. His phrases and text-elements read like a private archive of "notes to self"— fragments “typed into your phone after a long call with your parents”, where comfort, anxiety, and a delusional kind of whimsy begin speaking in the same voice. His recurring practice invites viewers to observe how environments once familiar persist within the mind shift under the pressure of time, displacement, and the internal necessity of remembering.
Through a practice that interweaves poetry, text, and painting on shaped canvases, Ho treats language as a physical material, inviting viewers into the emotionally charged space between the thought and the transcription of the thought into inner dialogue . “and i love you dearly” stays with the strange comfort of looking back, even when “home” begins to feel like a story you kept telling yourself. Ho’s artistic language—informed by a transpacific sensibility shaped by his upbringing in Hawaiʻi and his international trajectory through Tokyo and Hong Kong —emerges through an unusually direct relationship, almost tactile relationship with words. Having studied fine art and linguistics at UCLA under influential artists including Barbara Kruger and Adrian Wong, he developed an interest in how words carry emotional registers as much as they convey meaning—an instrument that can console, unsettle, and stabilise. In this body of work, Ho continues to explore how identity and belonging are carried through fragments: phrases, images, and emotional textures that serve as psychological anchors even as their meanings shift.
In this new presentation, Ho engages identity not as a stable essence, but as something inherited, partial, felt—a continuous process of negotiation. His practice uses shaped canvas panels and trompe-l’oeil strategies to blur the boundary between painting and object, allowing the text to project toward the viewer. The works accumulate phrases and images in a manner reminiscent of how memory gathers keepsakes to navigate the present.
Ho’s residency at HART HAUS offered an especially productive space for this exploration. During his residency at HART HAUS, Ho found in Hong Kong a site of intimate distance—connected to his Cantonese heritage, yet experienced as a space of active negotiation. The exhibition ultimately holds space for the uncertainty of reflection: a tenderness toward the past, paired with an awareness that the self is always being composed in real time. Across Hawaiʻi, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, his works function as prisms through which the beauty and desolation of environments are intensified, re-examined, and translated into new, restorative visual forms.
“and i love you dearly” embraces the strange comfort found in reflection—where “home” becomes less a destination than a story we continue to tell ourselves to stay whole.
HART HAUS 榮幸呈獻 Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho 個人展覽「而我深深地愛着你」，為他在 2026 年 2 月至今於 HART HAUS 的國際藝術家駐留計劃畫上句號。展覽呈現了一系列引人入勝的全新作品，巧妙地交織了詩歌、文字與繪畫，將畫布重新想像成探討懷舊、記憶與身份認同的載體。
展覽中，藝術家創作的風景同時承載着記憶的重量與自我虛構的浪漫藍圖。他思考曾經熟悉的場所如何在腦海中存續，將文字與意象視為地景，任其被時間、流離以及懷舊帶來的扭曲悄然改變。他的句子與文字讀起來宛如一份私密的「自我備忘」——就像與父母通完長途電話後，在手機裡打下的零碎話語，慰藉、焦慮與天馬行空的奇想融為一體。他反覆實踐的創作手法，邀請觀者觀察那些曾在腦海中存續的熟悉環境，如何在時間、位移以及因記憶而產生的內在需求而發生的轉變。
透過在形狀各異的畫布上交織詩歌、文字與繪畫，藝術家將語言視為一種物理媒材，藉此邀請觀者進入充滿情感張力的空間——思緒與思緒轉化為內心獨白的縫隙之間。「而我深深地愛着你」停留於回首過往的奇異慰藉中，當「家」已開始成為一段你不斷對自己訴說的故事。藝術家受夏威夷的成長背景以及往來於東京與香港的國際軌跡所影響，在「跨太平洋感性」中形塑出獨有的藝術語言，以異常直接、近乎觸覺性的文字呈現。藝術家曾在加州大學洛杉磯分校（UCLA）修讀藝術與語言學，受教於 Barbara Kruger 及 Adrian Wong 等具影響力的藝術家。期間，他對文字如何承載情感語域產生了濃厚興趣——文字不僅傳達意義，更是能撫慰、擾動與穩定心靈的工具。在此系列作品中，他持續探索身份與歸屬感如何透過碎片呈現：詞句、意象與情緒質感等，即使意義不斷演變，仍發揮着情感寄託的作用。
此次新作展中，藝術家認為身份並非穩定的本質，而是某種繼承而來、不完整且訴諸感官的存在，是一個持續不斷的協商過程。他的創作實踐利用非典形的畫布與錯視策略，模糊了繪畫與物件之間的界線，使文字得以向觀者突進。這些作品使用句子與意象的方式，引導觀者聯想記憶如何藉由截取紀念物，以導航當下的過程。
HART HAUS 的駐留計劃為藝術家的這場探索提供了極具成效的空間。香港於他而言是一個既近切又疏離的場所——此地與他的廣東/香港背景緊密相連，同時又需要積極協商來感知的地方。這場展覽始終為反思的不確定性保留了空間：一種對過去的溫柔，並伴隨對「自我始終處於即時建構中」的自覺。橫跨夏威夷、東京與香港，他的作品如同稜鏡，重新審視並強化環境中的美感與荒涼，將之轉化為具備修復性的全新視覺形式。藝術家為這一系列作品所挑選的字句，「讀起來就像與父母通完長途電話後，在手機裡打下的字詞」。
「而我深深地愛着你」擁抱了在反思中尋得的奇異慰藉——與其說「家」是一個目的地，不如說是一個為了讓我們保持完整，而對自己不斷訴說的故事。
General Visit 公眾參觀
Date日期：9.5 - 4.6.2026 (Tue - Sat 二至六)
Time 時間：11:00 - 18:30
Venue 地點：HART HAUS 3/F
Visit by appointment only 敬請預約
General admission begins on the first regular opening day after the opening reception.
公眾參觀於開幕酒會後的第一個正常開放日開始。
About the Artist 藝術家簡介
Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho (b. 1996, Kamuela, Hawaiʻi) is a Japanese and Cantonese American artist based in Tokyo. His practice utilizes a coordinated system of language, collage logic, and trompe-l’œil painting to examine the mechanisms of emotional insulation and the performative nature of selfhood in a post-social-media landscape.
Developed in response to the compressed urban scale of Tokyo, Ho’s works often take the shape of trompe-l’œil box forms. These structures function as surrogates for the body, asserting a physical presence through posture, leaning or tilting to mimic the dynamics of a conversation. The surfaces of these forms act as archival sites where familiar and nostalgic imagery, personal ephemera, and linguistic ruminations accumulate.
By layering text that mirrors the cadence of unsent late-night messages and internal monologues, Ho explores a contemporary condition defined by an oscillation, between wry optimism and self-aware insecurity. The performance of identity in his work serves both as a critique of a compulsive self-categorization and as a symptom of cultural dislocation.
Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho（1996 年出生於夏威夷卡姆埃拉）是一位常駐東京的日港 / 日粵裔美國藝術家。他的創作實踐利用語言、拼貼邏輯及「錯視幻象畫法」（trompe-l’œil）所構成的手法，藉此探討在後社交媒體時代背景下，情感隔絕的機制以及自我身份的表演性質。
藝術家的作品回應了東京的壓縮城市狀態，常以「錯視幻象箱體」（trompe-l’œil box forms）的形式呈現。這些結構充當了身體的替身，透過倚靠或傾斜的姿態展現物理存在感，藉此模擬對話間的動態。這些形體的表面則作為檔案場域，承載並堆疊着熟悉且懷舊的意象、私人閑置物品，以及對語言的反覆思考。
由深夜未發送的訊息及呼應內心獨白所拼湊的文字，藝術家定義並探索了一種在冷嘲式的樂觀與自覺的不安全感之間擺盪的當代處境。其作品中對於身份的表演性，既是對強迫性自我分類的批判，亦是文化位移下的症狀。