Gordon Cheung and Yoshinori Niwa Exhibition

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Gordon Cheung's exhibition, entitled "The Abyss Stares Back", will include a new series of large scale paintings examining the relationship between civilisation and conquest - in particular, the social, moral and political climate surrounding China's emergence as a 21st century global superpower, and the Western anxieties relating to this shifting global landscape.

Running concurrently, this will be acclaimed Japanese artist Yoshinori Niwa's first UK exhibition, centred around his three channel film "Looking for Vladimir Lenin at Moscow Apartments." The film documents Niwa's visit to Moscow, where he interviewed members of the public about their memories of Lenin, finally asking if he could visit their homes and borrow a physical object from them related to Lenin, which he originally exhibited at the Moscow Contemporary Art Museum alongside the work. In a characteristically absurdist manner, the work exposes the extraordinarily varying attitudes to Lenin and his legacy in Russian collective consciousness.