Out of the Woods: Mengmeng Zhang, Long Huang, Syeda Aatika Fatima, Can Sun, Yingming Chen

Created specifically for the fair, Long's new series, Urban Fable, offers a series of surreal compositions depicting imagined architectural spaces that have been invaded by various animals. Characterised by a recurring imagery of pools and psychedelic colours, Long’s paintings fuse inner and outer landscapes in an attempt to convey an embodied sensation of longing. Long seeks to give form to the universal experience of melancholy, longing, and déjà vu by imaging the perceived energy of spaces, rather than real places themselves. The series’ pictorial focus on man-made enclosures, such as...