DOMINIQUE FUNG: WHERE THE FEAST OUTLIVED ITS GUESTS: A TABLE THAT REMEMBERS

MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique is pleased to present Where the Feast Outlived Its Guests: A Table That Remembers, a solo presentation by Dominique Fung.

January 20 - 31, 2026

In Where the Feast Outlived Its Guests: A Table That Remembers, Fung lingers on objects that survived their makers, preserving the traces of occupation. Fung’s practice is rooted in acts of looking and return. She turns repeatedly to books, images, and objects from the past - forms that have survived their original moment.

The paintings on view, A Table Laid of Bronze Spirits and A Table Set for a Low Tide, are still lifes that feel both generous and unsettled. Fung absorbs this compositional logic - the table as a site of accumulation, balance, and latent instability - and lets it drift into her own visual language. For the first time in her work, cherries, lemons, and strawberries appear: vivid, perishable, briefly luminous. They rest among recurring Tang dynasty bronzes, introducing a tension between what is consumed and what survives.

Threaded through these compositions are flying jade fish, a motif Fung returns to often in her work. This overlap helps explain the fish’s persistent presence across China. In these paintings, fish animate the still life, unsettling its surface and disrupting any sense of stasis. The table becomes porous, less a grounded support than a shifting terrain where objects seem to float, gather, and disperse.

Fung’s still lifes are not warnings about vanity, nor celebrations of abundance. They read instead as moments caught just after something has happened. The feast is over, but the table remains uncleared: cut fruit left in place, fish still in motion. There are no figures in these paintings, yet they are full of presence. One senses that people were here not long ago - that something was shared, roles were played, conversations unfolded and then dissolved. In Fung’s work, the feast is recast as memory - a table that records what has passed as much as what was once present. What remains is a sense of persistence. A table, remembering.