Pleased to share Sun Xun’s solo exhibition, ‘Sun Xun: Mythological Time’ at Vancouver Art Gallery. On view is the video installation ‘Mythological Time’ (2016) in which the artists takes viewers on a journey through his hometown of Fuxin in northern China, a coal-mining centre facing the depletion of its economic lifeblood. Additionally, being presented for the first time will be a major 30-metre ink painting.
Mythological Time Sun Xun
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Sun Xun, ‘Mythological Time’, 2020, ink on traditional mulberry bark paper, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist
Photo by Ian Lefebvre, Vancouver Art Gallery
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Sun Xun, ‘Mythological Time’, 2020, ink on traditional mulberry bark paper, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist
Photo by Ian Lefebvre, Vancouver Art Gallery
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Sun Xun, ‘Mythological Time’, 2020, ink on traditional mulberry bark paper, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist
Photo by Ian Lefebvre, Vancouver Art Gallery
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Sun Xun, ‘Mythological Time’, 2020, ink on traditional mulberry bark paper, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist
Photo by Ian Lefebvre, Vancouver Art Gallery
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Sun Xun, ‘Mythological Time’, 2020, ink on traditional mulberry bark paper, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist
Photo by Ian Lefebvre, Vancouver Art Gallery
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Sun Xun, ‘Mythological Time’, 2020, ink on traditional mulberry bark paper, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist
Photo by Ian Lefebvre, Vancouver Art Gallery
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Sun Xun, ‘Mythological Time’, 2020, ink on traditional mulberry bark paper, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist
Photo by Ian Lefebvre, Vancouver Art Gallery