LONDON.- Rossi & Rossi present Sometimes Lies are Prettier, the first solo exhibition in the UK by Tavares Strachan. Sometimes Lies are Prettier centres upon a historical happening in 1995 – the disappearance of the XIth Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. In Tibetan Buddhist culture, the Panchen Lama is revered as the second most important religious figure after the Dalai Lama. He is considered to be an emanation of the Amitabha Buddha and possesses the spiritual powers and authority to identify the next Dalai Lama. On the 14th of May, 1995, a formal announcement was made by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, recognising a six-year-old boy Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, from the Lhari district in Nagchu, Tibet, as the reincarnation of the Xth Panchen Lama. Three days later, the boy and his family were abducted by the Chinese authorities and have not been seen since. The Chinese government subsequently