MINE PROJECT is pleased to present “The Love That Moves the Sun and All the Stars,” the solo exhibition by Chinese artist Gong Bin (b. 1992, Yiyang, China). The show features 11 paintings that depict the merging and collision among the fantastic worlds imagined, traversed, and mapped by the artist. Taking the visceral, relatable, and truthful experiences in life as a departure point, the exhibited works harbor intimate and irreducible universes. It is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery as well as in Hong Kong.

Venturing out in colors, Gong paints in an introspective mode, which for him resembles a “spiritual odyssey.” In his paintings, images and imagery originate from his mindscape, where memories, imagination, and dreams interweave and coalesce. Drawing visual metaphors and analogies from fairy tales, fiction, poems, and recalled personal experiences, Gong’s works resist the constricting—and at times misleading—assumptions of realism and reality. Without referencing photographs, his painting process reveals an active meditation on the nature of memory, which negates, encompasses, slows down, and simultaneously intensifies the flow of experience.

Gallery address: 202, The Factory, 1 Yip Fat Street, Wong Chuk Hang