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After decades of travel and observation, Malaysian-born but Singaporean-based photographer and filmmaker Sherman Ong has built a strong rhetoric on the theme of origin, migration and diaspora. His own experience of migration came fairly early, when as a teenager he was uprooted from his home in ...

Posted: February 3rd, 2016

Category: News, Voices

At the age of 69, Chun Kwang Young is today internationally recognized as an artist who has been seeking the essence of his home country, Korea, to infuse it onto the social and political contradictions expressed by the Abstract Expressionist statement. In his work, Chun Kwang Young creates small ...

Posted: February 3rd, 2016

Category: News, Voices

Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra are a dynamic artist duo based in Delhi, who have been collaborating since 2004. Trained in design, their work incorporates symbols and images from popular culture which appeals to a global audience, addressing universal themes of identity, consumerism and change. The ...

Posted: February 2nd, 2016

Category: Interviews, News

Li Tianbing explores fiction and reality haunted by selected childhood memories in a suffocating society and charged political setting. Using photographs as a medium to illustrate his reflections on the past and his multicultural experiences, Li layers the present using oil painting in a timeless ...

Posted: January 26th, 2016

Category: News, Voices

About Sherman Ong’s three photographic series, HanoiHaiku, Monsoon and Spurious Landscapes, as well as the short film, Tickets, which first debuted at the Singapore Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2009, as part of Ming Wong’s show where Singapore won a special mention. HanoiHaiku captures the ...

Posted: January 26th, 2016

Category: News, Voices

Many of the scenes captured in Hypothetical Arrangements are inspired by photographs taken from interior design books.  Why did you decide to use these images as your starting point? Dane Patterson: For this show I wanted to begin with spaces that had a very clear design aesthetic to deviate from. ...

Posted: January 26th, 2016

Category: Interviews, News

Siddhartha Tawadey was born in Calcutta, India and studied art and photography at St Martin’s School of Design and City University in London. Works from the artist’s series Decadence of the Abandoned highlight the abject beauty of possessions that have been discarded. The over-abundance of ...

Posted: January 25th, 2016

Category: Interviews, News

You work with industrial materials such as Corten steel and aluminium. Is this a purely aesthetic choice? Have you always been working with these materials? Jedd Novatt: When I started out as a sculptor, my options were limited and based predominately on accessibility. I started working with mild ...

Posted: January 25th, 2016

Category: Interviews, News

Lara Audergon is passionate about contemporary art, an interest that has blossomed since moving to Asia. In 2005, Lara Audergon and her husband Christophe left their native Switzerland to set up Crossinvest (Asia), an independent wealth management company based in Singapore. Since then, they have ...

Posted: January 22nd, 2016

Category: Interviews, News