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Capturing transient feelings and emotions through imageries imbued with metaphors, Tao Siqi’s artworks embody what Spinoza defined as the three basic human emotions that drive passion, namely, pain, pleasure, and desire. Be it for the photographs from her student years or her most recent oil paintings in large or small dimensions, Tao adopts various visual resources ranging from film scenes and found digital images to convey the complexity of human eros. Her works on view in this exhibition can be roughly divided into two types: those depicting the transcendental signifiers charged with …