Shang Chengxiang is a contemporary fine artist, living & working in his home city of Shengyang, China. Chengxiang’s work draws on early surrealist movements, evoking the strange, unsettling imagery of Dali or Magritte, but brought up to date with incredible, high definition colour palettes, where billowing clouds of multicoloured pigment ooze across bizarre dreamscapes. Fusing the figurative with the abstract, ‘ Our Relationship’ depicts the centre of a violent whirlpool, as ripples of water converge around a single, central point. Set within a square frame, the piece is brilliantly dynamic, almost bursting at its edges as if the pressure of the water could leak beyond the two dimensional image. Paired with its abstracted title, the piece doesn’t ask its viewer to make lucid conclusions, but to revel in the strangeness of the unconscious & creative mind.