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Make Room Los Angeles is pleased to present Astra Huimeng Wang’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, in my experience the spider is the smallest creature whose gaze can be felt. Conceived over the past year, this new body of paintings and sculptures is the result of Wang’s continued dialogue with 19th and 20th century literature, which she mines for descriptions of a “mysterious” Orient collectively imagined by Western writers, seeing them as portals into the realm of fiction. Taking its title from a line in Iris Murdoch’s novel Under the Net, the exhibition deals with the conflicted, …