The Sunday Painter has announced 'It follows me quietly still', a solo exhibition by Zearo, the Kuala Lumpur-born, London-based artist (b. 1996). An opening reception takes place on 11 November 2026 from 6.30 to 9pm, and the exhibition continues until 19 December.

The show is built around a single, sixteen-metre pastel painting that envelops the gallery's main space. Its departure point is New Park in Taipei, described by the gallery as one of the earliest sites in the Sinophone world where queer men gathered openly. The park entered popular consciousness through Pai Hsien-Yung's novel 'Crystal Boys' (1983), later adapted for film in 1986, which traced the lives of young gay men on the margins of Taiwanese society. In Zearo's rendering, the park becomes at once a refuge and a place of exposure, where desire plays out under social judgement and institutional control.

Working in chalk pastel, the artist assembles a collective image out of individual marks that recall pixels, each contributing to a larger visual rhythm. The compositions register the quiet tensions and connections between bodies, mapping a spectrum of queer experience that is communal, personal and political at once. Fragile and tender, the work asks how longing and connection persist across time. At sixteen metres, the centrepiece ranks among the most ambitious single works the gallery's main space has hosted.

The pictured work, 'The curfew' (2026), pigment on washi, measures 1.16 by 16.32 metres. The announcement surfaced via the gallery's own Instagram on 20 October and has not yet appeared on its website — the kind of gallery-first announcement this scan exists to catch.