The impact of new Chinese art awakens the sleepers

Political sleepers or a dream-like state? The White Rabbit Gallery looks at new work by nine Chinese artists to find the answers.
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Installation view of Sun Xun’s Republic of Jing Bang at White Rabbit Gallery; supplied

The next edition in a string of bespoke Asian exhibitions opens this week at the Sydney powerhouse of collector Judith Neilson, her White Rabbit Gallery.

Titled The Sleeper Awakes, the exhibition takes its cue from HG Wells’ novel of the same title, where the hero emerges from a 200-year coma to find a world of brainwashed slaves ruled by a council of despots.

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