...depicting intimate scenes of chaos—domestic interiors engulfed by flame, objects caught mid-collapse—yet executed with a serenity that belies their catastrophic content...
5-50 Gallery presents Ardent Longing, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Dan Oliver and Tiantian Lou. Though distinct in material and method, both artists interrogate the fragility of structures—architectural, psychological, and existential—and reveal how the built environment mirrors the contingencies of human experience.

