July Round-Up

1335 Mabini, Seed the Art Space and DOCUMENT Space
By Alana Malika

Liu Hsin-Ying, ‘Layer Upon Layer’, 2020, Acrylic, pastel, crayons and charcoal on canvas, 150 x 244cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Richard Koh Fine Art.

What There Looks Like
Richard Koh Fine Art presents ‘What There Looks Like’, the first solo exhibition by Malaysia-based Taiwanese artist Liu Hsin-Ying in Singapore. The show contemplates the ephemeral qualities of nature and the human body in a subjective frenzy of shapes and strokes.  The seemingly haphazard strokes, intuitive colouring and disregard of realistic perspective evokes the artists’ emotional connection to the trees, winds, and sea she paints.

Richard Koh Fine Art Singapore, 18 June to 10 July 2021.

Installation view of ‘Beta’ by Tromarama. Image taken from DOCUMENT.

Beta
‘Beta’ by Tromarama will be the group’s first solo exhibition in the United States at DOCUMENT Space, Chicago. The title of the exhibition is a double entendre referencing ‘beta’ as the word East Indonesians use to say ‘I’ or ‘myself’ and ‘beta test’ as the trial period in the development process of computer machinery. The main site-specific installation features melodicas, a mandatory instrument in Indonesia’s national elementary curriculum, responding to real-time inputs from tweets under #nationality. The resultant discordant notes become a metaphor for the digital footprint of Indonesian culture from our generational experimentation with technology.

DOCUMENT, 5 June to 8 August 2021.

Shwe Wutt Hmon, Noise and Cloud and Us, 2021, mixed media photography. Image courtesy of the artist Objectifs Centre of Photography and Film.

Noise and Cloud and Us by Shwe Wutt Hmon
Myanmar photographer and Objectifs Documentary Award recipient Shwe Wutt Hmon will have his solo exhibition ‘Noise and Cloud and Us’ at Objectifs Centre of Photography and Film. A collaboration between the artist and his sister Kyi Kyi Thar, the project subverts common representations of mental illness as an internal struggle by documenting the pair’s mutual efforts toward recovery. The photographic and mixed media installations insert an interpersonal focus, emphasising how ‘self-care’ can be supported by a community.

Objectifs Centre of Photography and Film, 24 June to 18 July 2021.

Celeste Lecaroz, ‘Bamboo Dancing’, 2021, derived from 1951 painting by Fernando Amorsolo entitled, ‘Tinikling’. Image courtesy of 1335Mabini.

RÉPÉTITIO LECAROZ
In a collaboration with the Fernando Amorsolo Art Foundation, Celeste Lecaroz presents ‘RÉPÉTITIO LECAROZ’ at 1335Mabini in Makati City, Philippines. The solo exhibition comprises 15 reinterpretations of works by Philippine painter Fernando Amorsolo which Lecaroz renders into spontaneous realism. These derivative works were all painted during lockdown and celebrate generations in Philippine art during a precarious period. 

1335 Mabini, 30 June to 28 July, 2021.

Eko Nugroho, (left to right) ‘Multi-Identity’, ‘Please Donate Your Love’ and ‘Still Equal?’, 2013. Images courtesy of STPI Gallery.

Re_: Close to Home
‘Re_: Close to Home’ is the second edition in the ‘Re_’ series at STPI Gallery, Singapore. Indonesian artists Jumaldi Alfi, Eko Nugroho, Handiwirman Saputra, Melati Suryodarmo, Entang Wiharso, Srihadi Soedarsono and Sunaryo Soetono join together in a celebration of Indonesia’s diverse artistic landscape. The multi-platform viewing room presents a collection of works in a variety of mediums and narratives, offering an archipelagic survey of the nation’s contemporary art. 

STPI Gallery, 2 July to 14 July 2021.

Yeo Tze Yang, ‘Look On Down From The Bridge’, 2020, oil on canvas, 150 x 180cm. Image courtesy of SEED the Art Space.

Yeo Tze Yang: Evening, Once More
In his fourth solo exhibition, ‘Yeo Tze Yang: Evening Once More’ with SEED the Art Space explores evening time in Singapore as an in-between space straddling day and night, work and home. These oil paintings depict the urban landscape in the evening as a visual representation of the present turning into the past. The mundane moments of pastel sunsets and bustling hawker stands create hope for the unknown future emerging from time passing.

SEED the Art Space at the Substation Gallery, 25 June to 12 July 2021. Register for a visiting slot here.