Yan Pei-Ming’s new series of works explore the complexities of current global developments and their multilayered impact, on a societal as well as personal and emotional levels. Created during the last few months, the paintings are pervaded by feelings of constriction and solitude experienced during the artist's confinement. In these works, Yan examines the unprecedented inner conflicts of the current situation in an intimate and piercingly direct way. Deeply rooted in the tradition of European painting, the new self-portraits, landscapes and still-lives are interrelated by the common thread of time passing.