Huang Wei, Girl with a Pearl Earing, Oil on Canvas, 30x20cm, 2025

SWANFALL ART returns to Mall Galleries, London this month with its annual exhibition. Titled Fables, the exhibition examines narrative as a method in contemporary art, reflecting a wider shift from expression to resonance.

Art’s power lies not only in representation but in transformation – in awakening perception, forging connections, and disclosing essence. It renders the abstract perceptible and gives form to the ineffable.

Irina Patrusheva, LipglossYang Jingtian, Bloom Touch, Never Reach

Amid ongoing global uncertainty, there is a growing fatigue with formalism and aesthetic detachment – a change increasingly evident across artistic discourse. The experience of art is moving away from self-expression toward emotional and intellectual resonance. Collectors and audiences are turning their attention to conceptual depth and affective force rather than technical virtuosity or stylistic novelty. This turn reflects a deeper, often unspoken, collective longing for memory, identity, and shared experience.

MIAO, Antiquities Series, MK1Huang Po-Chien, I Am Not My Mind, I Am Not My Body

Story remains a vital way of organising time, understanding change, and locating ourselves in the world. Narrative today is being redefined – not simply as storytelling, but as a structural and perceptual framework. Contemporary works often resist singular viewpoints or linear conclusions, instead inviting open-ended interpretation.

Li Shuangqiang, Elegy of the Lost

This year’s exhibition responds to this shift – from explanation to insight, from statement to shared experience. Spanning painting, installation, moving image, text, sound, and performance, the works in Fables embody narrative in diverse and often unexpected ways. Some unfold gradually, revealing layers of implication through sustained engagement; others deliver an immediate impact that lingers long after the encounter. Together, they create a multi-sensory, multi-temporal environment in which narrative is not merely conveyed but inhabited, refracted through each viewer’s own histories, associations, and perspectives.

toooomyng, Nascent

We seek to share works that generate rhythm, provoke thought, and animate the space between feeling and idea – pieces that may resist explanation yet resonate deeply within the silent structure linking image and idea, gesture and memory. Here, art does not affirm what is already known but extends the boundaries of perception, offering stories that evolve as they are experienced, and truths that shift as they are seen.

Pandora Wang returns with Fables: Swanfall’s Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries. As a curator, she approaches her work with remarkable intuition—one might even say with the sensitivity of an artist. This year, in collaboration with MIAO, she not only draws out the emotional resonance of each piece but also shapes a quiet dialogue that unites the entire exhibition space—a testament to both their passion and professionalism.

Fables is curated by Pandora Wang and MIAO

Fables | Swanfall Art Annual Exhibiotion 2025,
26th – 31st August 2025, Mall Galleries

Open: 10AM – 5PM Private View: 26th August, 6PM – 9PM *Invite only

About

SWANFALL ART is the curatorial and artist development division of SWANFALL, a London-based contemporary art platform dedicated to curatorial production, artist representation, art advisory, and secondary market transactions. Our core mission is to foster an open, diverse, and transnational platform that supports intellectually rigorous and experimentally driven artistic practices

As the commercial exhibitions branch of SWANFALL, SWANFALL GALLERY represents a select roster of artists and presents their work through international art fairs* and private sales. The synergy between curatorial vision and market structure enables us to enhance academic visibility while supporting the sustainable growth of our artists’ careers

By integrating curatorial strategy with a commercial framework, SWANFALL offers a comprehensive support system, committed to building bridges between cultural value and market potential – expanding the possibilities for contemporary art creation and public engagement. 

*SWANFALL GALLERY recent art fairs: Beijing Dangdai Art Fair 2024 (Beijing Contemporary), ART021 Shanghai 2024, Art Central Hong Kong 2024, ART021 Shanghai 2025 (November 2025)

Fables | Swanfall Art Annual Exhibiotion 2025, video preview credits:

1. Li Shuangqiang, Elegy of the Lost, 2. Cliff Warner, Figure in Solitude v1 @ cliff_warner_artist, 3. Mark Lawson Bell, All Her Rivers @marklawsonbell, 4. Aura Sun, Torch @solar_aura_, 5. Francesca Centioni, Vol.12, 6. Verona Shi, Water 02, Nature’s Matronome @v.eron_a, 7. Zhang Kaixiang, Momme III @, 8. Yang Jingtian, Bloom Touch, Never Reach, 9. Sachiyo Nishimura, Lines on Pavement 01-1, 10. Yang Jingtian, Staring at Me, Like I Don’t Even Exist @chingtinyeung, 11. Tong Mo, Prelude of Light 20, 12. Anne Guest, Flourish @anneguest.artist, 13. Hu Minyue, The Skeleton of Temperature @doublemoonart, 14. Wang Yaqi, Memory Filter 01 – Collection @yakiwang33, 15. Dom Holmes, A Ti Plant at Jallianwala Bagh @domholmesart, 16. Lucie d’Halluin, Sunday Stroll @d.h.a.r.t, 17. He Yichen, Crimson Weave @calmdownhyc, 18. Marie-Therese Heublein, Upwards @marie.t.h, 19. Aleksandar Bursac, No Wrong Answers I, Variation 02 @_alek_b_, 20. Zhou Yuyue, The Drowning of Narcissus, 21. *toooomyng, *Nascent @toooomyng, 22. Wonyoung Shim, Gate 776 @0ne_dongle, 23. Lewis Brown, Interference III @lewisbrownstudio, 24. Li Shuangqiang, Long Dream 18, 25. Irina Patrusheva, Power @irinapatrusheva_, 26. Irina Patrusheva, Precious, 27. Huang Wei, Girl with A Pearl Earring @alex_hw_art, 28. Sanemi Shetty, Ethereal Echoes 03 @sanemi_art, 29. Eleonora Rinaldi, The Offences @eleonora___rinaldi, 30. Liu Hongrui, Dejection @hongruios, 31. Li Desheng, Lotus 02, 32. Guo Xiaojun, New Classics of Mountains and Seas 02, 33. Mark Lawson Bell, Berg, 34. Lito Apostolakou, Dream Penumbra @inklinks, 35. MIAO, Antiquities Series – MK1 @mismsim, 36. Li Shuangqiang, H.P. Lovecraft

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