Kiang Malingue is pleased to present Dwelling in Mirrors, a solo exhibition by Wang Xiaoqu at its Hong Kong location, featuring over a dozen oil paintings created over the past year. The series expands upon the artist’s recent artistic trajectory—a transition at once poised and intense. As the artist turns her gaze inward, she recalibrates the relationship between the self and the other, utilizing her captivating canvases to reimagine social milieus, friendships, temporal existence, and the ruptured link between the ego and its projected ideals—the self dwelling in mirrors. This is Wang Xiaoqu’s first solo exhibition with Kiang Malingue.

Over the past decade, Wang has woven complex visual narratives through technically exquisite and unexpectedly composed paintings. She favours depicting startling, confounding tableaus, where recurring imagery of middle-aged men and sophisticated social situations elicit a subtle sense of unease while accentuating power dynamics and emotional conflicts. A palette alternating between sugary and cold tones intensifies the persistently fraught relationships between the figures, animals, and flora within her concise compositions. What feels intense, bordering on violent, is not only the movements of Wang’s characters, but also her own gesture: envisioning and weaving tenuous connections between humans and objects within a weightless void.

Opening: Thursday, 25 June, 6 – 8 PM

Gallery address: 10 Sik On Street, Wanchai