M+B is pleased to present The Apple Fell, and the Dream Ended, an exhibition of new paintings by Chinese artist Liu Xin. Liu's paintings suspend solitary figures between waking and dreaming—kneeling beneath crimson moons, curling inside bathtubs against winter stillness, merging with dead branches. Apples, lotus flowers, and pearls carry symbolic weight drawn from Greek mythology, Freudian dream analysis, and Zen philosophy, rendered in subdued palettes with restrained brushwork. The works don't illustrate interiority so much as construct it: landscapes become stages for the subconscious, bodies become vessels for psychological states neither fully conscious nor fully dreamed.
