Working in sculpture, Leelee Chan’s visual vocabulary reflects her subjective experience of the extreme urbanization in Hong Kong by proposing a dialogue between concrete materiality, found in heavy industry, and poetics found in ceramics, and its cultural archaeology in millinery Chinese history. Chan’s training in sculpture has allowed her to have hands-on practice in the making of each of her pieces. The structural assembling and metal welding needed for the fabrication of Chan’s works is executed by the artist herself. The artist’s work engages with wider narratives linked to science fiction, global export market, the naturalization of urban landscapes, and the environmental crisis. Chan’s sculptures often recontextualise the value of dumpster detritus, household ephemera, and mundane objects that are generally considered unmemorable or unworthy of preservation. She imaginatively explores their transformative potential and reconfigures each item according to their unique quality. Chan’s sculptures evoke architecture and anthropomorphic shapes, embedded with playful and meticulous details that slowly unfold upon closer observation.