Chinese artist Chen Ke exhibits a series of paintings of Marilyn Monroe at Hong Kong’s Galerie Perrotin for her debut gallery show that runs May 11-June 25.

Although Monroe’s image has been an art world mainstay since artists like Andy Warhol and Richard Hamilton painted her in the 1960s, Chen takes a new approach to painting the famed actress in this exhibition, titled “Dream·Dew.” Whereas previous artists have focused on Monroe as an image or icon of a certain era of Hollywood glamor, Chen’s paintings focus on Monroe as person, a woman with hopes, history, and dreams.

For example, in “1932·Los Angeles·6 Years Old,” 2016, Chen shows a young Monroe in the flower garden of a house straight out of an early 20th century American landscape painting. The image is put into question, however, by Monroe’s shadow, which seems to suggest she is posing against a backdrop rather than a real landscape, and by the fact the image is totally removed from the reality of 1930s America, with young Monroe’s blonde hair and clean blue dress at odds with our images of the Great Depression.

Chen’s idea to paint Monroe’s dreams and real life came from the Chinese character translation of “Monroe,” which literally means “dream of dew.” As the artist puts it in a statement, ““Dream” refers to Marilyn’s dreams, also the American Dream, the Hollywood Dream…the large paintings represent dreams of Marilyn’s childhood, youth, adulthood and an imaginary old age,” while “dew is the real, as opposed to dreams.”

“Chen Ke: Dream·Dew” runs May 11-June 25 at Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong