Category Archives: Exhibitions
Life is Beautiful
TOP TO BOTTOM, (from “Life is Beautiful“) © Manit Sriwanichpoom, 2008 One of the first galleries I visited was Manit Sriwanichpoom. The gallery was charming in its own right, almost the anti-gallery with its bright green walls and cramped surroundings. On show now is a series of portraits by Manit. dealing with the stigmatism of [...]
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L ‘Etranger – Kar-Wai Wesley
TOP TO BOTTOM, (from “L ‘Etranger”) © Kar-Wai Wesley L’Etranger is an invitation to experience Paris as ‘l’etranger’ or in English, the foreigner; the alien; the stranger; the other… My friend, Wesley, from Memphis West Pictures is holding an exhibition in Paris, his home for the past three years. This exhibition consists of a series [...]
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Germinators
Got this in my mail today for a visual art exhibition in New York. Unfortunately, I’m halfway across the globe! ChinaSquare Gallery New York is pleased to present Germinators, a group featuring Cao Jingping, Chen Wei, Li Jikai, Liao Yibai, Ma’chunfu, Qu Jiehen, Unmask, Wang Haiyang, Wang Tiantian, Wang Yaqiang, and Zhang Peng. Germinators includes [...]
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Persistency of Living | Memory
Opening this Saturday at 2902 Gallery, a group exhibition featuring Amanda Poh, Clarence Aw, Jean Loo, Joel Yuen, mintio, Vanessa Ban and Tan Peiling. The show explores the idea of documenting the living as memory and memory as an intrinsic nature of human – to record the passage of time and life. 13th January © [...]
MOP: Singapore
I’m a little late in running this. Singapore’s annual photography-based festival, Month of Photography, is back again this year. It is on from 13 June to 20 July and features a range of activities from exhibitions to workshops. Visit the official website for more details.
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Good Night, New York © Miao Jiaxin 4: Photo Group Show, features works by four Chinese-born, New York-based photographers – Zhang Wu, Miao Jiaxin, Zheng Yaohua and Wang Yiqun (whom I featured earlier in the week). The accompanying exhibition statement, Discomforting Anxieties, is a good read to find out more about the photographers and their [...]
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Pillow Talk
Sleepwalking, 2004 © Ringo Bunoan Take Nothing, Leave Nothing, 2004 © Ringo Bunoan Two Years of Sleep, 2006 Installation using cotton from pillows © Ringo Bunoan Pillow Talk is the culmination of Ringo Bunoan’s body of work using pillows. It gathers seminal and significant pieces, including installations, sound work, photographs, and light boxes. Pillow Talk [...]
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30th February
Chow Chee Yong would be presenting his 6th solo exhibition at Kay Ngee Tan Architects Gallery from 19th Feb to 15 Mar. Drawing influences from the surrealists, most notably Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and Op Artist MC Escher, Chow questions possibilities of subverting expectations of the experiences. These processes of questioning reality forms the catalyst [...]
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Cut
Valentine Willie Fine Art Gallery will be holding Cut: New Photography From South East Asia from 13th Feb to 1st Mar. This groundbreaking exhibition of emerging photography from the Southeast Asian region focuses on young artists and the range of approaches to photography coming up now. A younger generation of artists and photographers is probing [...]
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