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Sun Yao’s solo exhibition “Sublime Theatre” will open to the public on November 12, 2025, at Hall 5, chi K11 Art Museum (B3F, K11 Art Mall, 300 Huaihai Road Central, Huangpu District, Shanghai). The exhibition will run through December 7, 2025.

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Sun Yao will participate in the xiàn chǎng section of the 2025 Westbund Art & Design from November 12 to 16, 2025, presenting the monumental four-panel painting Inner Universe - Ad Astra.

The artist shares a personal interpretation of the work:

“In the cosmos, we are minute yet wondrous — like stars in the night sky, similar but never the same. Within the inner universe of our minds lie uncharted territories veiled in mist. As life’s rhythm flows, the soul traces landscapes in perpetual motion. The universe is the shared tapestry of human destiny, whereas the inner self becomes the world stage for each individual’s final act. The individual is the whole; every person stands as a noble monument to the sublime.”

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Sun Yao’s solo project “Future Memories” was presented in collaboration with Lamborghini Shanghai from December 21, 2025 to January 4, 2026. Special thanks to Lamborghini Shanghai for their generous support.

Artist’s Statement: “The obsession with speed is a drive to transcend the limits of the human body. The energy generated in an instant can briefly liberate our being from the mundane, resonating with the cosmos itself. On the canvas, velocity fields like the birth of nebulae appear as an intense burst of vital energy. They shape the cities of the future — not merely as physical sites, but as spiritual landscapes and inner metropolises where human life unfolds. Within them, our emotions, memories, and unknown energies continue to surge with boundless force.”

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Skyline - Crimson Flame Devouring the Wild
“Yellow pulls across the hills and thrums, or the silence after lightening before it says its names – and then the clouds’ wide-mouthed apologies.” — William Stafford, Assurance‌

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Skyline - Scarlet Crag Fall
“A mighty cascade falls ten thousand feet, through vast distance, half-veiled in violet mist, sweet. It dashes down past mingled trees in flight, sprays out from layers of clouds, a splendid sight.” — Zhang Jiuling, The Waterfall of Mount Lu Viewed from Hukou

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Behind the Works｜Skyline - The Catcher in the Rye

All my life, I had never seen a wheat field with my own eyes. All I knew of them came from fleeting scenes on television, already filtered, framed and embellished by the camera and the editing room. Growing up in the south, however, I would occasionally come upon fields of rapeseed flowers, quite by chance.

When I was at school, I often travelled by train between Hangzhou and Shanghai. By today’s standards, those trains moved at something closer to a leisurely sightseeing pace. But that was precisely what made the journey so enjoyable: I could sit by the window, unhurriedly watching the scenery pass, or simply drift into a daydream. It was during those journeys that I came to remember, so vividly, the great expanses of yellow rapeseed flowers rushing towards me.

The fields would sweep past the window, stretching out in every direction, with not a soul in sight, while the carriages were packed to the brim. The rapeseed flowers, dancing and bobbing in the wind, seemed just like a noisy group of playmates, laughing and calling out to me, almost tempting me to jump down and join in their wild games. For one fleeting moment, I would truly want to throw myself into that sea of yellow, run and tumble about to my heart’s content, and keep playing until I was utterly exhausted, then simply sleep as the sun went down…

By then, the train would already have rocked and rattled its way into the distance. Yet I would remain seated by the window, hardly moving at all. I knew that a part of me had been left behind in that field of flowers. And when I passed by again on another train, I would find not the slightest trace of it.

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Skyline - Skyfall
“Happiness comes quietly with morning-winds in sleeping greenery, happiness slides away in light cloud-images over deep blue ravines, happiness is the field which sleeps in the midday glow and the endless plain of the sea under the baking, vertical rays.” — Edith Södergran, The Pain

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Sun Yao: A Study of Brushstroke and Texture VOL.7

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Skyline - Canyons Flush with Dawn
“Time roars with our longing for home like a seashell, and the fire in the depths of the earth already knows of our ruin.” — Nelly Sachs, O the homeless colors of the evening sky

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Skyline - Wondering Horizon
“By the inexplicable workings of a divine law, we look for you in vain; more remote, even, than the Ganges or the setting sun, yours is the solitude, yours the secret.” — Jorge Luis Borges, To a Cat

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Zenith - The First Brew of The Galaxy
“Devouring the clouds, the sand showed yellow, a storm wind was rocking the bushes to and fro, and the sky had congealed where it touched a sprig of woundwort that staunched its flow.” — Boris Pasternak, Marburg

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State of Mind VOL.5
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我对帷幕有着一种异乎寻常的眷恋。

幼年时，常参加学校组织的演出，每次在剧场彩排时，当看到从高处垂下的巨大帷幕就狂喜不已，仿佛是大人们不经意留下的游戏道具。我和伙伴们人来疯似地把自己卷在沉甸甸的暗红色帷幕里，相互撞击、乱摸一气，直至被领队呵斥。

这些帷幕，就像是克苏鲁的沉睡之神，缄默不语，毫不抗拒，无论之前我们怎么折腾，它们仍直挺挺地垂落，恢复如初，似乎什么也没发生。临到开演前，和伙伴们躲在巨大的帷幕后，战战兢兢地默念着台词，等待着自己上场的时刻。此时，帷幕却顿失了威严，反倒像一双双垂落的大手，护着我们，让我们倚着，不被台前那一片直逼而来的目光射倒。之后，就尤其喜爱去剧场，早些年的电影大都是在剧院里播放，当银幕上声光电交错地喧闹时，我都会留意下两旁的帷幕，它们依然岿然不动，垂落在那，身体在场，却魂不附体，似乎没人能搬动它们。

再次被帷幕所触动，是在父亲的医院里。拥挤的病床间，只能靠帷幕相互区隔，以此维持着最后的一点隐私；不过多数时候，帷幕仍是被拉开的，病友之间常常谈笑打趣，初入病房，竟然觉得只是在某个职工宿舍，全然感受不到压抑与绝望。

那些被染成青蓝色的帷幕，轻飘飘的，一抬手就顺当地把它们推到一边，不费吹灰之力，就像被驯服了一样，毫无存在感。然而，出乎意料的是，在某个特定的时刻，它们却轻而易举地将我击垮。我第一次在那里经历了离去，在一位几天前还求生若渴的病人床边见证了消逝，那一瞬间，所有病床的帷幕都被拉起，清脆的摩擦滑轨的声音不绝于耳，就好像是不约而同地履行着仪式。我顿时觉得沉默之神们又回来了，帷幕就是他们轻盈的身影，他们围拢在悄无声息的床边，默不作声，窗外的风偶尔路过，拂动他们。

终于，在某一天，父亲的时刻来了。我仿佛觉得他意识到什么似的，做好了准备，摆好了姿态，就像儿时我躲在帷幕后等待出场的时刻。熟悉的滑轨的声音此起彼伏，沉默之神又飘然而至，降落在帷幕上，让它们轻盈起来，被风拨弄着，床上的父亲却如磐石般沉寂，他的身体没剩下什么，却压的我喘不过气来。

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