Artist Joanna Tam's solo exhibition "when blue meets blue" opened at the 25/8 Art Gallery on April 13, 2026. The show, presented in partnership with the Harvard Square Business Association and Intercontinental Management, features photographic works and installations exploring the ocean and sky as motifs tied to migration, memory, and the complex duality of nature. Tam, who grew up in Hong Kong and moved to the US, draws from personal experience to create a space for meditation on comfort, freedom, trauma, and tension.
The exhibition is significant for its interdisciplinary and research-based approach to themes of diaspora and environmental reflection. Tam collaborated with Haitian poet blu to incorporate text, and the installation uses materials like chiffon and neon to create a multi-layered sensory experience. The show marks a deeper investigation into water as a site of transformation and resistance, while also highlighting Tam's conscious practice of respecting the labor of cultural workers involved in exhibition-making.