How Liang Kai paints with metaphor

"He's playing on the idea of the deceptive nature of what can be seen on the surface."

Curator Shi-yee Liu on "Poet strolling by a marshy bank," a painting by Liang Kai.

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Photography by Katherine Dahab

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