MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present A Grass Roof, Lily Stockman's first exhibition in Hong

Kong. Stockman takes her title from an eighth-century poem by the Tang Dynasty Buddhist master Shitou Xiqian, whose Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage makes an audacious claim: "though the hut is small, it includes the entire world." The six new paintings test whether paint might do the same thing. Exploring the phenomenological proposition at the heart of Shitou's poem - where the protagonist dissolves into perceived space through portals of color and permeable boundaries - Stockman's canvases collapse the distinction between interior refuge and infinite expanse. Can a painting contain everything?

The works unfold in a narrow palette of blues and greens - frames nesting within frames, organic shapes blooming and receding, scumbled outlines and slivered shadows creating what Stockman describes as a "permeability" between self and spaciousness.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 24, 6-8pm The artist will be present

Gallery address: Shop 03-205A & 205B & 206, Second Floor, Barrack Block, Tai Kwun