Yet, the rain and wet tarmac made actions like kneeling before a parent more brutal, requiring more unjustifiable submission.

At the end, Tang, who made his thanks in front of organiser Art Outreach’s space, looked pleased with the more focused, ambivalent homage to this natural dialectic between the old and the young.

The tapestry, along with five other works from private collections to do with the parent-child relationship, remains on show at Art Outreach.

Gillman Barracks’ other exhibitions also made the visitors’ trek worthwhile, including an impressively curated show of 15 works from the Pierre Lorinet collection, themed Rough; and a solo exhibition of Myanmar artist Htein Lin, titled Reincarceration.

Rough, at 22 Lock Road, is so called because of the raw and unrefined feel of the selected works, a theme that curator Edward Mitterrand says finds its echo in the more rugged surroundings of the barracks.

The bold creations by leading contemporary artists are split zonally and tagged helpfully with QR codes by Art Outreach that provide their context.

Greek artist Jannis Kounellis’ oddball sculpture-canvas of steel, metal, painted wood and wax finds a sleek echo in the shaped canvases of American artist Blair Thurman, recalling the curvatures of car parts and racetracks.