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LIU Ren’s third solo exhibition at Don Gallery features his most recent series of “straw-paper-brick-paintings,” in which he develops a profound understanding of portraying literary, historic, philosophical themes with polemical essences and poetic nuances.

Over the last ten years, LIU has mined the archives of English vocabularies mapped with dictionary meanings, Chinese classical poems on views of life and death, significant news stories and social media posts in the recent period for paintings on straw paper. Easily consumed or utterly forgotten though they might be in the immediate …