This installation recreates a singular type of room, the pseudo-domestic dream space with which the artist has experimented previously. The individual pieces include three light boxes, a small painting, and decorative installations. Collectively entitled Xi Jia and named after the recurring protagonist in many of Song Kun’s works, these works embrace images of beautiful destruction, the perception of which is inextricably tied to the emotional response of the viewer. The viewer is confronted with a mixture of broken glass, cotton balls, light-colored foam, cartoon-like paintings and sketches, and antique baubles. These various pieces realign notions of beauty and maturity by putting them into dialogue with memory and emotion. The installation resumes the narratives begun in the artist’s earlier works: the viewer again finds a fax machine, 1980s disco music, the play of light over resting bodies, and train windows, all of which belong to and help create the character of the perpetually-absent Xi Jia