MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present "A Grass Roof", Lily Stockman's first exhibition in Hong Kong

 2022 Lily Stockman portrait, photo by: Laure Joliet

From the Press Release:

Lily Stockman takes her title from an eighth-century poem by the Tang Dynasty Buddhist master Shitou Xiqian, whose Song of the Grass Roof
Hermitage makes an audacious claim: "though the hut is small, it includes the entire world."

The six new paintings test whether paint might do the same thing. Exploring the phenomenological proposition at the heart of Shitou's poem - where the protagonist dissolves into perceived space through portals of color and permeable boundaries - Stockman's canvases collapse the distinction between interior refuge and infinite expanse. Can a painting contain everything?

The works unfold in a narrow palette of blues and greens - frames nesting within frames, organic shapes blooming and receding, scumbled outlines and slivered shadows creating what Stockman describes as a "permeability" between self and spaciousness.

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