White Cube has opened 'North and True North', the first UK solo exhibition by Hong Kong-born artist Firenze Lai, at its Mason's Yard space in London. The show brings together a new series of paintings and works on paper and runs from 13 October to 14 November 2026. Lai's canvases are populated by figures that are often anonymous — sometimes faceless — set within indeterminate environments that speak to what she has described as the formless expanses of online existence. These bodies merge with themselves or one another, become absorbed into larger systems or circuits, fragment, duplicate and drift between realms. While her paintings frequently address the digital condition, Lai avoids depicting technology directly, turning instead to its impact on human emotion and behaviour. The exhibition title pits two ideas of north against each other: true north, the fixed direction of the geographic North Pole by which the lost can regain their bearings, and magnetic north, whose position constantly shifts. The gallery frames the pairing as a figure for certainty itself in the digital era — fixed and unfixed at once, caught between the search for a single source of truth and the impossibility of finding one. In 'The True North' (2024), a crouched, faceless figure reaches blindly with a grotesquely enlarged hand, recalling the touch controls used to rotate a smartphone map. The exhibition opened with a late-night opening on 13 October. Lai's work is held in public collections including the Centre Pompidou, M+ Hong Kong, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and the Kadist Foundation.