White Rabbit’s second exhibition, THE TAO OF NOW, presents more than 60 works; only four have previously been shown in Australia. Their themes are as up-to-the-minute as land theft, political power and the lust for luxury goods, but they are also steeped in the oldest parts of Chinese culture: Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, martial arts and ancient legends.
Among the highlights:
- Wang Yuyang’s full-sized minivan—battered, dust-covered … and breathing
- the domestic interiors of Dong Yuan, small rooms made up entirely of trompe l’oeil paintings
- Qin Fengling’s Scaffold, a huge wood-on-canvas structure swarming with figures made of paint squeezed straight from the tube
- Shi Jindian’s motorbike and sidecar crocheted from blue stainless steel
- Lin Junting’s traditional ink-painting-style landscape, reinvented in interactive touch-screen video with music
- Zhang Chun Hong’s 11-metre-long, near-photographic drawing of her own plaited hair
