Refrain | 復沓

© White Cube Mason's Yard

Refrain | 復沓

22 May 202627 June 2026

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Beijing-based Shao Fan presents meditative ink paintings on xuan rice paper, exploring Daoist philosophy, temporal passage, and the fluid boundaries between human, animal, and landscape.

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Shao Fan's oeuvre is overrun with rabbits. They first appeared in his paintings around 2009 and have continued to resurface ever since: solemn, watchful and strange. Enlarged to near-human proportions, they face the viewer head-on, sitting upright with the ceremonial frontality of Chinese ancestral portraits. Soft ears raised, dark eyes almost at level with our own. In the earliest of these paintings, the rabbits were more figurative and detailed, fleshed out in muted hues of acrylic and oil....

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