The Sunday Painter is pleased to announce It follows me quietly still, a solo exhibition by Zearo (b. 1996 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, lives and works in London, UK). Please join us for the opening reception on the 11th of November from 6.30–9pm. The exhibition continues until the 19th of December.
Centred on a single, sixteen-metre pastel painting that envelops the gallery’s main space, the exhibition takes New Park in Taipei as its point of departure, one of the earliest sites in the Sinophone world where queer men gathered openly. The park became widely known through Pai Hsien-yung’s seminal novel Crystal Boys (1983), later adapted for film in 1986, which traces the lives of young gay men on the margins of Taiwanese society. In Zearo’s painting, it emerges as a place of refuge and exposure, where desire finds expression under the shadow of social judgement and institutional control. Men lean against trees, wait and drift apart beneath a full moon, their encounters recurring without resolution.