Once hailed as “the most bustling and most beautiful garden city in the Far East”, Macao is an exotic back garden that has seen the convergence of different cultures since the Age of Discovery. “After Oriental Garden” takes Macao as its anchor to navigate through the city's multi-layered memories of colonial trade, botanical migration and diasporic populations, which develop into a landscape that is both realistic and haunted. Featuring archives, videos, sound installations, and ready made, this exhibition provides marginalised voices and forgotten lives with a space for rearticulation. It attempts to unsettle stereotypical grand narratives and allow mutual penetration between historical memories and contemporary experience, thus seeking vitality for sustainable transformation and reinvention and to reconstruct a space that is open to critical reflection: what species migrations and power games are occurring unnoticed behind the romanticised imagination of the “Oriental Garden”? In an era full of uncertainties, how should we once again learn to “dwell” and how should we build a new framework to comprehend a generation that is intertwined with trauma and possibility?