Detail: Sun Xun is a mid-career Chinese artist who works in a range of mediums including painting, drawing, animation, video and installation. In his highly imaginative video installation Mythological Time (2016), Sun takes viewers on a journey through his hometown of Fuxin in northern China, a coal-mining centre facing the depletion of its economic lifeblood.

Sun’s video installation from the Gallery’s collection will be presented alongside a major 30-metre ink painting, titled Mythology or Rebellious Bone (2020), being shown for the first time.