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Spanning a web of myths and microcosms, Gao Yutao’s first solo-exhibition at Migrant Bird Space Berlin revolves around the theme of “stone”: the stone as a prominent subject in Western & East-Asian mythologies, as a medium of spirituality and as an object of artistic merit in and of itself.

The title of the exhibition, “Mount Meru & Mustard Seed”, goes back to Buddhist cosmology where the sacred Mount Meru is considered to be the center of all physical and spiritual universes. As the metaphor goes, fitting the entire five-peaked Meru into a tiny mustard seed means recogni-sing the …