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Bradley Ertaskiran is pleased to present Shaan Syed’s exhibition Les Rapports, a new body of paintings centered on the motif of the rubber plant. In both their making and content, Syed’s artworks highlight the trajectories and lingering relationships between things and their material pasts, spanning East and West.

Les Rapports centers on three large double-panel paintings and a salon hang of over twenty works on linen. Syed’s process begins with an undercoat of thick blue oil paint dragged across the painting, structuring the surface and composition, similar to the foundational warp and weft …