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Xavier Hufkens is pleased to present Chinese artist Qiu Xiaofei’s debut exhibition in Europe. Entitled BARE, the presentation showcases a new series of paintings created between 2021 and 2023. Referencing Eastern and Western aesthetic traditions, while also drawing on the literary, musical, and intellectual worlds of both cultures, the works straddle the border between observation and imagination, exploring the depths of human consciousness and the boundaries of reality.

The title of the exhibition alludes to a famous sentence from the poem First Day of the Year Wu Shen by the Ming Dynasty …