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The Sunday Painter gallery is pleased to present cosset, the first UK solo exhibition by artist Junyi Lu (b. 1996 in Guangzhou, China). A text by Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe accompanies the show.
Developed over the past year, Lu’s new body of work transforms the gallery into an immersive, enveloping environment through painting, installation, and sculpture. The exhibition's title, with its enclosing parentheses, reflects Lu's ongoing exploration of internal tensions shaped by both personal histories and wider global structures. In dialogue with Hanya Yanagihara's 2022 novel To Paradise, which portrays characters caught between societal turmoil and the desperate search for protection, Lu examines how both the human body and domestic spaces function as paradoxical vessels. Like Yanagihara's protagonists, Lu's work navigates the boundaries between these dual-natured environments—spaces that act as both sanctuary and barrier.
This duality materialises thro…
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The Sunday Painter gallery is pleased to present cosset, the first UK solo exhibition by artist Junyi Lu (b. 1996 in Guangzhou, China). A text by Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe accompanies the show.
Developed over the past year, Lu’s new body of work transforms the gallery into an immersive, enveloping environment through painting, installation, and sculpture. The exhibition's title, with its enclosing parentheses, reflects Lu's ongoing exploration of internal tensions shaped by both personal histories and wider global structures. In dialogue with Hanya Yanagihara's 2022 novel To Paradise, which portrays characters caught between societal turmoil and the desperate search for protection, Lu examines how both the human body and domestic spaces function as paradoxical vessels. Like Yanagihara's protagonists, Lu's work navigates the boundaries between these dual-natured environments—spaces that act as both sanctuary and barrier.
This duality materialises thro…
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