Red Hong Yi

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“What stayed with me most was how gentle the exhibition looked at motherhood not romanticized, but raw, repetitive, exhausting and deeply loving all at once.
Red Hong Yi transformed her first 30 days of motherhood into embroidered works that feel almost like memories sewn into fabric.”

I’m a Mum?! - by Red Hong Yi
, Penang
1 10 May - 12 July 2026
6 12PW - 7PM (Fit-Sun)

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My first exhibition since becoming a mother! It's such a personal one and I am so grateful to have had it realised in such an intimate way.

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I gave myself a task to create an artwork everyday for the first 30 days after my son was born. Here are days 21-30.

This is a series that is deeply personal to me titled, “My First 30 Days with You”, currently showing at . The exhibition will run from 10 May to 12 July, 2026.

I gave myself a task to create an artwork everyday for the first 30 days after my son was born.

I found myself instinctively drawn to textiles, buttons, fabric, and embroidery. There was something about stitching that suddenly felt deeply emotional to me - the act of mending, repairing, piecing things back together slowly by hand.

This is a series that is deeply personal to me titled, “My First 30 Days with You”, currently showing at . The exhibition will run from 10 May to 12 July, 2026.

*I created these artworks based on sketches I did in those 30 days. I was too tired to stitch and thread all these everyday in those every days - this series took almost 2 years to complete, with the help of a few other hands!

“Ricecooker”, displayed along Jiashan Road, Shanghai.

My team and I brought a few button pieces from our studio to the streets of Shanghai a few months ago. We surreptitiously hung up some pieces off laundry rails on the streets - no one seemed to notice most of the time - probably thought we were hanging laundry!

This series was made of thousands of buttons, hand-sewn with red thread. The pieces show common objects that I saw while living with my Shanghai grandaunties and uncles, in their old Shanghai laneway house back in 2010-2014 (almost a 2016 throwback haha!).