Featureless but not faceless

In the other two exhibition halls, Lellouche presents paintings on etchings, creating different images on top of the same print, like variations to an existing melody.

Another space shows his photographs of miniature figurines of his large sculptures. He played with the composition, changing their positions in these photographs, as if rehearsing for a theater production.

"I have a growing need to put some of my works together or, rather, to put them as close to each other as possible ... to experience the confrontation of their solitudes," the artist says.

Lellouche's work is internationally exhibited and collected. He has studios in Paris, Tel Aviv and Beijing.

He has spent much time in China since his first exhibition in the country at Beijing's Cafa Art Museum in October 2012 and has created many works in his studio in Songzhuang, an art community in the capital's suburbs.

He worked as a guest professor at Renmin University, where he "had a fantastic experience surrounded by lovely young students, as - you know - artists are lonely most of the time."

In China, he has forged friendships and connections with artists that are no longer common in the Internet age.

"I would meet artists of my generation, visit their studios and feel at home here."