Xuanry Wang (born in China in 2000, lives and works in London) presents a new series of five small – scale paintings for her debut solo exhibition ‘The Impossible Hand’. For this show, the artist created specifically this new body of very intimate and delicate works where the figurative elements of hands are almost impossibile to be traced at a first glance. Hands are a recurrent subject in her practice and are often depicted starting from the memory of historical movies or classical paintings as referencies. Wang’s compositions reflects her interest in the exploration of desire and pathos that she investigates capturing details and gestures of the human body. Her paintings seem to conncet the viewer to the ancestral aspect of our existence.

The exhibition is accompanied by the poem of Federico Garcia Lorca ‘Casida of the Impossibile Hand’.

Casida of the Impossible Hand

I want no more than a hand,
A wounded hand, if possible.
I want no more than a hand,

even if I spend a thousand nights with no bed.

It would be a pale lily of lime,
a dove it would be, chained to my heart,
the guard it would be, who on my last night
would deny the moon entrance wholly.
I want no more than that hand

for daily unction, the white sheet of my dying.

I want no more than that hand
to bear a wing of my death.
All the rest passes.

Blush now without a name. Perpetual star.
The rest is the other; sad breeze,
While the hosts of leaves flee.

Written by Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)