“I like simplicity that has an inherent complexity,” says the artist Nicolas Party, known for his strikingly strange landscapes, portraits, and still lifes. “Red Forest,” Party’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, features 13 new pastel works that explore the complex and often inexplicable link between nature and humanity. Inspired by wood, fire, earth, metal, and water—recognized in Chinese philosophy as the five foundational elements that govern the interactions between all things in the universe—Party inquires into humanity’s role in the destruction of the environment. —Nyla Gilstrap