#MirandaFengyuanZhang's solo exhibition at our Brussels gallery space, 'Thus to sleep is sweeter than to wake', opens tomorrow, September 8th.⠀ ⠀ Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce Miranda Fengyuan Zhang’s first solo show in Belgium. The exhibition features a new group of Zhang’s hand-woven paintings as well as an installation made with a reappropriated 19th century French divider. Zhang often utilizes the formal practice of weaving to create a spatial narrative of her most intimate recollections. Thus to sleep is sweeter than to wake interrogates the luring sensation of dreams, offering a passage to an imaginary realm.⠀ ⠀ Windows, passages, entrances, and openings are the recurring subjects of the exhibition, leading visitors to the realm of the possible, of what might have been, of an alternative trajectory, a dreamscape. Zhang’s work alludes to the beauty of this liminal state, converging in spirit with the old Chinese idiom 镜花水月, jing hua shui yue, which translates to “flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water”, symbols of unattainable fantasies that produce profound longings but also awareness of the distance between illusion and reality.⠀