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‘Structure & Absence’ is a group exhibition that features the Chinese scholar’s rock as an organising device or motif. A selection of scholars’ rocks will be installed in the galleries as unfamiliar objects, disrupting how we usually look at contemporary art. The rocks have a deep but ambiguous history in Chinese culture, acting as objects of both trade and contemplation. Although they are non-figurative objects, their suggestive forms also encourage the viewer to find likenesses of familiar things. Equally, the rocks demand close observation of their surface, structure and material. ‘Structure & Absence’ will invite the viewer to bring this blend of imagination and observation to contemporary art.

The exhibition will be divided into three galleries, each featuring works with a particular visual quality. In the opening gallery, surfaces and surface textures dominate, and the work is characterised by organic forms and colours. The second room features brighter, more saturated colours, forceful horizontal lines, with paintings and photographs by artists exploring geometric abstraction and the legacy of the Modernist grid. In the third gallery, shadows move in, structures break down and colours are either absent or muted: any dream of order becomes a potential ruin, weakened by entropy and erosion. The three galleries of ‘Structure & Absence’ thus form a composition, with a rise, climax and fall, reminiscent of a typical dramatic or musical arrangement.