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Island is pleased to present Precious Mirror, a solo exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist Damien H. Ding.
Lined with mirrored boxes on either side of the gallery, Precious Mirror confronts the viewer with a reflective mirage. Four Shadows (2025) serves as an anchor, outstretched in a conjoined frame on the far wall. The quadriptych presents four fleshy forms, fading into skeletons as they span a horizontal ladder. More sumptuous scenes are nestled behind the seamless enclosures of the mirror boxes: two figures fornicate before a roaring fire, a faceless woman studies a book of Balthus’ paintings, a weary and flaccid man sits alongside a supine form. Functioning simultaneously as objects, portals, andtools of self-scrutiny, the mirrored works entangle these visions with reality. Ding’s familiar surfaces ensnare viewers recalling the mythological Narcissus, who became so enamored with his reflection that he drowned in his own gaze.
Precious Mirror alludes to Cao Xueqin’s The…
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Island is pleased to present Precious Mirror, a solo exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist Damien H. Ding.
Lined with mirrored boxes on either side of the gallery, Precious Mirror confronts the viewer with a reflective mirage. Four Shadows (2025) serves as an anchor, outstretched in a conjoined frame on the far wall. The quadriptych presents four fleshy forms, fading into skeletons as they span a horizontal ladder. More sumptuous scenes are nestled behind the seamless enclosures of the mirror boxes: two figures fornicate before a roaring fire, a faceless woman studies a book of Balthus’ paintings, a weary and flaccid man sits alongside a supine form. Functioning simultaneously as objects, portals, andtools of self-scrutiny, the mirrored works entangle these visions with reality. Ding’s familiar surfaces ensnare viewers recalling the mythological Narcissus, who became so enamored with his reflection that he drowned in his own gaze.
Precious Mirror alludes to Cao Xueqin’s The…
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