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daSein Exhibition | Purphureos

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daSein Exhibition | Purphureos 崇真艺客



Gallery daSein is greatly honored to present the group exhibition "Purphureos" with artists Cat Madden, Beatriz Santos, Meghan Salisbury and Xie Ziyu.


The exhibition will open on January 10th at 15:00 and run until March 15th, 2025.



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The ancient Greeks discovered how to use minerals and biological materials to create different colors at an early stage, and began to systematically classify them primarily for decoration and religious rituals. They believed that excessive use of mid-tone colours—what we today refer to as grey—was undesirable, as the murky mix of black and white would create a sense of impurity, a kind of desecration of the sacred rites. Instead, craftsmen selected bright, vibrant colours, trying to find specific characteristics that resonated with the sacred and symbolic meanings of each ritual. As it became hard to tell apart the many similar colors, the Greeks adopted a narrative approach to naming colours by using attributes such as land and origin, hence creating names such as "white from Milos" or "red from Sinope on the Black Sea".  Alternatively, they employed poetic language to describe hues that were hard to define. 


In ancient China, the distribution and definition of colours were deeply tied to the imperial class, which held exclusive ownership and control over colours. Even before the Spring and Autumn Period, the doctrines of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements (Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth) were used to assign colors in a hierarchical manner. The two characters of colour in Chinese, "Yan" (颜) and "Se" (色), originally had two distinct meanings. "Yan" referred to facial embellishment, which included rituals and decorative practices influenced by Central and Western Asia. "Se" on the other hand, signified a strict tiered system where colors were classified based on political ideologies. Up until the Ming dynasty, colors were an absolute symbol of rank and authority. Thus, colours in early Eastern societies didn’t hold much decorative significance, as the majority of the population had no right to access various colours. However, colours were often borrowed and appropriated in village operas and rituals dedicated to the gods.


Colour has always been an inevitable discourse in art worldwide. Yet, until the Renaissance, the concept of colour was primarily a theory of reflection. It was only with the development of physics and optics from the 14th to the 16th centuries that the understanding and liberation of natural colours began to take shape. In contemporary times, colour has become a conceptual issue within the broader framework of total art. Under the premise that production fully relies on social systems and organizations, the appropriation of rhetoric and political anthropology has become a norm in artistic works. The early questions surrounding colour are revisited: Why do artworks require one or more colours? For Kandinsky, colour was a fundamental source of energy and life, possessing its own inherent logic. The romantic sentiments of artists have been subsumed into the context of neo-avant-garde art, it is increasingly necessary to express reflections on issues such as gender, ethnicity, politics, climate, history, and institutions through the works of artists.


The title of this exhibition is an inversion of Derek Walcott's poem Sea Grapes. "Porphureos" represents a colour that lies at the boundary between red and blue, connecting the hue of grapes with the profound depths of the ocean. This description of the sea as a wine-like purple can also be found in the works of Homer, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway. In the human brain, colour resides in one of the most ambiguous regions of memory; to this day, our ability to describe and recall colours still requires the use of narrative language to help the brain remember them more fluidly. Each colour has its quirks and characteristics, imbued with emotions and vague thoughts—boundless, enigmatic, and infinitely captivating. Colours are laid out by artists who possess an innate sensitivity to them, existing as hazy concepts and vital symbols before becoming part of named ideas, forms, and structures, and subtly solidifying into elusive implications of emotional projections and turmoil. From that moment on, colours never cease to speak.



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daSein Exhibition | Purphureos 崇真艺客


Cat Madden

(b. 1992, Dunfermline, Scotland) currently lives and works in London. She holds a BFA from Wimbledon College of Arts in 2016 and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2024. Through drawing, installation, and moving image, Madden intuitively explores the interplay between objects, play, contradictions, plasticity, and transformation, with which, she seeks to uncover and create a new experimental space.


Recent exhibitions: Game ≈ Role-playing ≈ Rule-setting, Small-Time Project, London (2024); Slade School of Fine Art  2024 MA/MFA Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London (2024); Hidden Door Festival (2018, 2019 and 2022) etc.

Cat Madden is the winner of the 2024 Ivan Juritz Prize for image category.



daSein Exhibition | Purphureos 崇真艺客


Beatriz Santos

(b. 1996, Lisbon, Portugal) currently lives and works in London. She holds a BA from Clare College, Cambridge in 2018, a Postgraduate Diploma from The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2020, and an MFA. from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2024. As a multimedia artist, Santos’s work draws on the everyday and the emotions it evokes, exploring themes such as memory, intimacy, humor, sadness, and longing. Her works challenges binary oppositions—fantasy and reality, interior and exterior, narrative and decoration, manual craft and intellectual art.


Recent exhibitions: Journey (Solo exhibition), Spring Up Gallery, London; Slade School of Fine Art  2024 MA/MFA Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London (2024); Filthy Fox Club Auction VI, Sarah Kravitz Gallery, London (2024) and Drawing In // Drawing Out, hARTSlane Gallery, London (2021) etc.

Beatriz Santos is the winner of the 2023 Richard Ford Award and the 2024 Dolbey Travel Award. Her work will be featured at ArtULTRA during the London Art Fair in January 2025.



daSein Exhibition | Purphureos 崇真艺客


Meghan Salisbury

(b. 2002, Bath, U.K.) currently lives and works in Bath. She holds a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art, awarded in 2024. Through painting, Salisbury creates a personal visual language to express how humans are composed of processes and forms that are often invisible or imperceptible.


In her work, bodily forms, movements, and spaces nurture and generate one another. Her paintings evoke associations with meadows, the inside of an ear, moonscapes, and diseases, inviting others to dive into the internal bodies she constructs.


Recent exhibitions: Slade School of Fine Art 2024 BA/BFA Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London (2024) and Fizz, Droop and Drool, New Wave art prize exhibition, City Lit Gallery, London (2024). Meghan Salisbury is the winner of 2024 New Wave Art Prize and currently in residency at Royal High School Bath.




daSein Exhibition | Purphureos 崇真艺客


Xie Ziyu 

(b. 1996, Jieyang, Guangdong) currently lives and works in Beijing. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2019 and a master’s degree in 2022. Her current works include various media, such as painting, sculpture, and installation. Xie focuses on the growth and operational principles of “nature,” attempting to express them into a multilayered visual language.


Recent exhibitions: Critical Distance, Surplus Space, Wuhan (2022); Room Theater, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen (2021); Up Close to the Ground, Down Close to the Blossom, Sabaki Space, Guangzhou (2021); Right Time, Trealm Hui Art Space, Guangzhou (2021); and Camel, Lion, and Infant, Boxes Art Museum, Shunde (2020). Xie Ziyu participated in the Memo Teaching Residency Program at Hubei Institute of Fine Art, Wuhan (2022), and the Shekmai Space Resident Project No. 2, Shekmai Space, Dongguan (2020). She was also selected for the Future Star Artist Recommendation series in ArtReview's 2024 annual issue.




daSein Exhibition | Purphureos 崇真艺客



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