Installation view, Xie Nanxing, Adverb High Command, Petzel, 2022
The object is hidden, only traces remain—such is the usual impression given by Xie Nanxing’s paintings. The artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, titled ‘Adverb High Command’, is a very apt reminder of that perception: The subject (image) is suppressed, interrupting our desire to seek a narrative from the pictorial surface; the adverb (traces of suppression and guidance) remains, and what drives the operation of the object is the unstable and irrational structure.
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