Beijing gallery presents Albanian artist Iva Lulashi's first China solo exhibition

Editor's note: "Neither in Heaven nor on Earth," the first solo exhibition in China by artist Iva Lulashi, is currently open at Spurs Gallery in Beijing until Nov. 30. Drawing on Albanian folktale, cinematic memory and theatrical gesture, the artist's new paintings stage a sustained meditation on desire, disappearance and the intermediate space between earth and sky.

Curated by Milovan Farronato, the show traces a narrative arc from intimate, earthbound embraces to large-format canvases of solar radiance. Lulashi transposes myth and memory into a pictorial language that filters bodies through reflected light, theatrical mise-en-scène and painterly blur—where eros becomes sacrifice and form dissolves into luminous dust. The exhibition's two spatial registers — an intimate chamber and an etheric hall— map the artist's recurrent themes: proximity and vanishing, spectacle and solitude, belonging and loss.

"Where Are You Staying on Sunday?" by Iva Lulashi on display at Spurs Gallery, Beijing, Oct. 23, 2025. In this modest-sized oil on canvas where figures surface through soft chromatic haze, Lulashi transforms an intimate moment into a suspended psychological tableau—neither memory nor dream, but an emotional temperature lingering between the two. [Photo by Liu Ziying/China.org.cn]