September Round-Up

Art Porters Gallery, ArtScience Museum, Kohesi Initiatives, 16albermarle Project Space, STORAGE, Carp Gallery 
By Riley Yuen

Hazel Lim, ‘I melt into you’, 2021, paper, acrylic, 86 x 55 x 7cm. Image courtesy of Art Porters Gallery.

a minor parallax

Hazel Lim’s solo exhibition ‘a minor parallax’ at Art Porters Gallery showcases her long-standing fascination with natural phenomena: from parallax errors to ‘Fata Morgana’. Through intricate paper foldings and tapestries, Lim creates planar and sinuous forms of colours. Between the creases and crests of her modular paper origami, the viewer becomes witness to the delicate dance between light and shadow. Her paper foldings and textual constructions allow viewers to immerse themselves in a kaleidoscope of possibilities, with each piece containing multiple entry points and interpretations. 

‘a minor parallax’ runs from 1 September to 8 October 2023 at Art Porters Gallery in Singapore. Click here for more information.

jo+kapi, ‘ENZYME 1.2’, 2023. Image courtesy of ArtScience Museum.

Notes From the Ether: From NFTs to AI

Curated by Deborah Lim and Clara Che Wei Peh, ‘Notes From the Ether: From NFTs to AI’ at ArtScience Museum features 20 international artists who are pushing the boundaries of artistic expression through Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Among them are Southeast Asian artists Rimbawan Gerilya from Indonesia and jo+kapi from Singapore. This exhibition implores viewers to ask questions about our collective futures as humans and machines become increasingly intertwined. The artworks engage with a plethora of pressing issues on ownership, identity, data collection, authenticity, and how the relation between humans and their environment continues to evolve through technology.

‘Notes From the Ether: From NFTs to AI’ runs from 19 August to 24 September 2023 at ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Click here for more information.

Heri Dono, ‘The King Who Creates Devide et Impera’, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 150cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Kohesi Initiatives.

Worship to Power

Kohesi Initiatives opens ‘Worship to Power’, a solo exhibition by Heri Dono that asks viewers to engage more deeply with the multifaceted issues underpinning Indonesia’s social, political, and cultural landscape. Dono’s work serves as a reminder that history can shape its own future through remembrance and reckoning. The gallery concurrently presents Jompet Kuswidananto’s ‘Dream Express: Personalised History of Mysticism’. The title opts for the word ‘personalised’ over ‘personal,’ to place emphasis on the individual—as opposed to the canon—in the retelling of histories. Jompet immerses his viewers through light, sound, texture, and dramaturgical flow to experience narratives gleaned from the artist’s mind. 

‘Worship to Power’ and ‘Dream Express: Personalized History of Mysticism’ run from 2 July to 15 October 2023 at Kohesi Initiatives in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Click here for more information.

Faheem T. Ahmad, ‘The land of hope’, 2023, silkscreen, 41 x 50cm. Image courtesy of Institut Seni Indonesia and 16albermarle Project Space.

DISRUPTION: Discourse and Exchange

As a folio print exchange among Institut Seni Indonesia Surakarta, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, National Art School (Sydney), Queensland College of Art, and 16albermarle Project Space, ‘DISRUPTION: Discourse and Exchange’ critically engages with printmaking. The exhibition demonstrates the medium's multifaceted potential for sharing cultural knowledge and engaging with contemporary culture through the traditional art form. The title alludes to the idea that in order to create dialogue through a print, one must disrupt a surface to imbue it with their own meaning. ‘DISRUPTION: Discourse and Exchange’ reveals the ways in which the artistic language and exchange of printmaking can be used to overcome the distances between cultures, contexts and continents. 

‘Disruption; Discourse and Exchange’ runs from 12 August to 23 September 2023 at 16albermarle Project Space in Sydney, Australia. Click here for more information.

Pati Tyrell, ‘Tulouna le Lagi’, 2022, commissioned by CIRCUIT with the assistance of Creative New Zealand. Image courtesy of Atelier 247 and STORAGE.

LEGACIES | ROUTES

‘LEGACIES | ROUTES’  features moving-image works of Edith Amituanai, Pati Tyrell, and Martin Sagadin from New Zealand and Sriwhana Spong and Ukrit Sa-nguanhai from Thailand at STORAGE. The artworks were commissioned by CIRCUIT—a non-profit agency that supports Aotearoa New Zealand artists working in the moving image. Each of the five artists were asked to ponder the impeding and propelling nature of legacies, the significance of them, and the ways in which individuals carry legacies within themselves spiritually and corporeally. 

‘LEGACIES | ROUTES’ runs from 3 August to 1 October 2023 at STORAGE in Bangkok, Thailand. Click here for more information.

Lee Yi-Peng and art naming奇能, 'but it’s merely separated by a distance that cannot be unlocked', 2023, keys, locks, stamps, stainless steel, size variable. Image courtesy of  鯉魚藝廊 Carp Gallery.

HEMLINGBY3

The 鯉魚藝廊 Carp Gallery and Taipei Artist Village bring together 29 artists, including Singaporean artists art naming 奇能 and Jeremy Sharma, for the third iteration of HEMLINGBY. Named after the inexpensive IKEA HEMLINGBY SOFA which served as a resting place during Carp Gallery’s early days, the furniture piece has become a symbol of cohesion and exchange. This show questions the significance of space, both literal and figurative, as a means to nurture artists and artistic production, as well as encourage discourse. Centring its curatorial theme around the idea of the “platform” and HEMLINGBY SOFA, this exhibition brings attention to one's surroundings and extends an invitation to ponder over how an art space functions, or ought to function, as a platform for artists.

‘HEMLINGBY3’ runs from 12 August to 21 October 2023 at Taipei Artist Village Barry Room in Taipei, Taiwan. Click here for more information.