# @whitecube on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DaF_TbiFcFu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67162722-whitecube-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-27T15:03:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** White Cube (@whitecube) — https://gondola.cc/whitecube

## Caption

Installed within the Neo-Palladian Saloon at Claydon House, Cai Guo-Qiang’s (caistudio ) ‘Heaven Complex No. 1 and No. 2’ (2017) is shown in dialogue with Van Dyck’s portraits of Charles I and Sir Edmund Verney, whose histories of power, conflict and empire resonate throughout the house.⁠
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Curator Susanna Greeves (susannagreeves ) reflects on the work, created in one detonation of coloured gunpowder and then partially obliterated in a second explosion.⁠
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‘Cai is depicting these conflicting human impulses, the urge to create beauty, and the drive to destruction.’ – Susanna Greeves⁠
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📍 ‘White Cube at Claydon’ is on view until 14 September 2026 at Claydon House, Buckinghamshire.⁠
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🔗 Click the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition and book tickets.⁠
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Video © White Cube (Sam Smith)⁠
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