One man is really three men. One life is really many lives. Youth blends into old age, and before long, memories are but distant echoes of the past. In Yang Fudong’s Sparrow on the Sea, the Chinese artist tells a reflective, nonlinear story of Mr. Ng, a man in a robe and fedora who traverses Hong Kong’s varied landscapes. “The film [attempts] to weave together time and memory, reassembling the confused and ambiguous episodes into a vivid journal of life,” Fudong says. Commissioned in 2024 for an LED facade of Hong Kong’s M+ museum, the work now anchors a gallery exhibition at Marian Goodman’s Los Angeles outpost. Shot in black and white and laced with poetic dialogue, the film draws from Fudong’s earlier work, as well as Hong Kong’s built environment, history, and cinematic legacy. Opening with his photographs and followed by his multi-media work, the show is a culmination of the artist’s practice over the last two decades. —Jeanne Malle