What ensues is a glorious lesson in the colourful, the soft, and the dreamlike, as well as every angelic colour under the sun. It’s also a lesson in holding your breath and flapping your arms around (Michael Hutchence not included). The series captures the world’s most oestrogen-heavy sport: synchronised swimming. Yep, chuck on your bathing caps, we’re going for a dip… in stilettos. And you thought that was just for ladies of good-breeding!

Henrik is pretty much self-taught, but the experience from art direction and retouching gives him an advantage in knowing what he wants, what looks good, and what doesn’t look good.

Zhang renders these scenes with a master’s craftsmanship. Hair, flesh, fabric, objects are constructed as self-contained elements, their individual treatment creating a sense of isolation and disunity in the collage effect. His super-pop sheen is exaggerated through painterly veracity: camera blurs, print bleeds, and flash bulb glares are faithfully replicated by brushwork which borders on abstraction. In Series 005 the night vision video effect is perfectly replicated by impassioned smears and smudges, simulating photo realism with intuitive spontaneity.

Behind each of these paintings is a complex story: of destitution, desperation, abuse and entrapment, side effects of economics, migration, and progress; the human costs of commodity culture. By recontextualising the way prostitution is represented and perceived, Zhang’s paintings strive to convey the human condition, with all its indignities and weaknesses, as a duplicitous victimisation of both the oppressed and oppressors.

Zhang Haiying was born 1972 in Shandong, China. Now lives and works in Beijing.

The photographer is convinced that every woman has the heart of an actress. Connections between her cinematic imagery and her Californian heritage seem clear-cut. The protagonists of the 18 new exhibits embody retro brought to life in their wigs and polyester blouses. Yet kitschy first impressions are quickly translated into ardent enthusiasm and fascination.

The fictional snap shots of just the other weekend take us on an emotional voyage through alienation, lust, fear, neglect and ambiguous, lunatic actions. The photographs go further than being mere colourful snap shots – each face, each expression tells part of the story.

Alex Prager was born 1979 in Los Angeles and started early when she took up a camera in her youth. She has no formal photography qualifications, but travelled the United States and Europe where she thrived on the many impressions she gained and a love of art. An exhibition by the pioneer of artistic colour photography, William Eggleston, provided the critical impulse to her work nowadays.