「We Are the Things Monsters Love」Alex Huda個展

"How do those rejected by society construct their own systems of meaning through myth, ritual, and unconventional intimacy?"

We Are the Things Monsters Love is a documentary portraiture project that fuses ancient Chinese shamanic traditions with Hong Kong's Voidpunk counterculture. Reimagining Qu Yuan's 3rd-century BCE Nine Deities as cyberpunk monsters, it explores how we can transmute the alien parts of our identities into sources of divine power.

When photographer Alex Huda arrived in Hong Kong, displacement took hold—until he crossed paths with Voidpunk, a community of LGBTQ+ individuals, neurodivergent minds, and creative outcasts forging non-human identities. What began as documentary became a living ceremony; Huda shed his own skin, created his Voidsona, and found a sanctuary of self-love.

Shot on analog medium format film and thermal camera, these co-authored portraits visualize the invisible energy flowing through the unchosen. This work invites us to look past the masks. Choosing to become a "monster" is not despair—it is a radical reclamation of power. Love and belonging are not prizes to be granted; they are energies cultivated from within.

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About the Venue

ACO (Art and Culture Outreach) is a non-profit charitable arts organisation led by artists, integrating a bookstore, publishing, curating, and creative space. Located in Foo Tak Building—a 14-storey tenement block transformed into a "vertical art village" in 2003—ACO is dedicated to supporting individual artists and groups, and promoting the development of arts and culture in Hong Kong. This showcase will be held at the ACO Art Space on the 6th floor.