This striking portrait by rising Chinese artist Li Qing forms the centrepiece of a solo show entitled Rear Windows, inspired by the classic Alfred Hitchcock surveillance thriller of the same name. Housed in a restored 1920s mansion in Shanghai owned by fashion house Prada, the work is not quite as it seems. For one thing, the young woman with the forthright stare is a fiction – the imagined granddaughter of the mansion’s original owner, tycoon Rong Zongjing. For another, she is not alone in the frame: closer examination reveals the ghost of Rong Zongjing’s face superimposed on hers.

Li Qing’s work is a multi-layered commentary on the dangers of taking things at face value, the dynastic nature of power in China, and the subtle but vital distinction between overt and covert meaning in the world’s largest communist state.