UKS is pleased to announce the first large-scale institutional solo exhibition by Yu Shuk Pui Bobby. The Piles We Carry is an exploration of the body’s hidden narratives and inherited discomforts, and the ways we process personal and collective pain through humour, storytelling and shared experience.

At the heart of the exhibition is a situational comedy documentary that reenacts the Yu family’s collective experience with haemorrhoids and their journey towards healing. Filmed in Hong Kong using a playback theatre approach, the film reconstructs family conversations and medical encounters through improvisation, humour and dramatised retellings. It offers an intimate yet absurd reflection on how health conditions shape family dynamics and how bodily experiences are inherited not just genetically, but also culturally and emotionally.