An encounter with unexpected beauty

Chen Danqing travels through Shanxi’s Northern Dynasties tomb murals, attending closely to line, movement, gesture, costume, animals, and the hands of unnamed painters. Removed from the conventional canon and hidden underground for centuries, these images preserve a vivid world of contact, migration, and everyday life.

This Partial View special invites viewers to share the surprise and fascination of meeting an unfamiliar beauty face to face.