This exhibition of the work of Chinese-Australian artist, Guan Wei, drawn from the MCA Collection, centres on Feng Shui (2004), an immense multi-panelled painting originally commissioned for Melbourne’s Bureau of Meteorology building. Comprising 120 panels and measuring some 18 metres long and over 5 metres high, Feng Shui represents humans, water, earth and sky existing in harmonious relationships. The work will be presented alongside a key series of works on paper by Guan Wei from 1989.

Guan Wei first came to Australia in 1989 in the wake of the Tiananmen Square uprising, when he was invited to take up an artistic residency at the Tasmanian School of Art in Hobart. He returned to settle permanently in Australia in 1990. More recently, he has divided his time between Sydney and Beijing, where he maintains a studio. Using a characteristic blue, white, and soft pink palette, his work depicts stylised human figures and mythological creatures that address questions of identity, migration, belonging and exile.

Curator: Manya Sellers