February 2025 Round-Up

Art Fair Philippines 2025, T:>Works, STP Gallery, 10 10 Art Space, Mariam Goodman Gallery, iPRECIATION, and Warin Lab Contemporary
By Alana Malika

Art Fair Philippines 2025

‘KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN!’ by Chia Amisola. Image courtesy of Art Fair Philippines 2025.

The 12th edition of  Art Fair Philippines 2025 is slated to feature 48 international and local exhibitors. The event hosts a variety of programmes, notably ArtFairPH/Digital which will present ‘KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN!’ by Chia Amisola in collaboration with twenty Philippine artists. It chronicles the digital footprint of a developing nation, weaving together narratives of resistance from censorship, anti-queerness, exploitation, and more within the confines of a karaoke machine.

‘Art Fair Philippines 2025’ will be held from 21 to 23 February 2025 at Ayala Triangle in Makati City. More information here.

T:>Works Per°Form Open Academy of Arts + Activations 2025

Promotional image of T:>Works Per°Form Open Academy of Arts + Activations 2025. Image courtesy of T:>Works.

The third iteration of Per°Form Open Academy of Arts + Activations 2025 (POA 2025) by T:>Works will take place this month. It joins together practitioners at the pulse of inclusive arts engagement, offering attendees the opportunity to engage with emerging ideas on advancing diversity. The thought leadership programme includes a Mentor Series featuring eminent practitioners such as Gridthiya Gaweewong, the POA Opening Studio with indigenous Nepali artists, and the POA Closing Studio with Xavier Le Roy.

T:>Works Per°Form Open Academy of Arts + Activations 2025 is taking place from 7 to 28 February 2025 at T:>Works in Singapore. Register for the event here.

Postcards from Home

‘Postcards from Home’ photographed by Reaksmey Yean. ©Reaksmey Yean. Image courtesy of STP Gallery, Cambodia.

Vandy Rattana, Cambodian photographer based in Taiwan, will present ‘Postcards from Home,’ his first exhibition in his home country in more than a decade. Initiated by Reaksmey Yean, Rattana’s homecoming at STP Gallery, Cambodia debuts a reflective photojournalism series that reveals the thin veil between daily life and past history in Cambodia. Newspaper prints are a significant medium in the series, with several images printed on newspaper prints as a reminder of the transience of the captured moments while also making a statement on the interconnectedness of a bigger picture.

‘Postcards from Home’ is on view from 23 January to 31 March 2025 at STP Gallery, Cambodia. 

One Day and One Night

Exhibition view of ‘One Day and One Night’. Image courtesy of 10 10 Art Space.

‘One Day and One Night’ is a solo exhibition by Angkrit Ajchariyaso at 10 10 Art Space. After taking a break from his practice, the artist became conscious of numbering his days and contemplated how to create meaning with the finite time left in life. The Thai artist imbued the emotions that arise from these reflections in a series of abstract landscape paintings through his fluid use of colors and textures. The paintings represent his attempt in recording present moments, ingraining the teachings by monk Ajahn Akkadach (Dtun) Thirachitto that preaches the value of time.

‘One Day and One Night’ is on view from 16 January to 31 March 2025 at 10 10 Art Space in Bangkok. More information here.

Dark Star/Grey Wolf

An-My Lê, ‘Launch Facility I-02 (aka ‘India 02)’, located at the intersection of Boston Coulee Road and Eden Road, approximately one mile south of Eden, Cascade County, (47.257615, -111.277166), Montana, 2024, from Grey Wolf, 2024, inkjet print, 121.9 x 163.8cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

‘Dark Star/Grey Wolf’ at Marian Goodman Gallery is a solo exhibition by Vietnamese artist An-My Lê debuting two new photography series. ‘Dark Star’ chronicles Lê’s trip to the Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado where she became fixated with photographing starscapes over the remains of an Ancestral Pueblo from the 13th century. ‘Grey Wolf’ is a collection of aerial photographs of mountains and the countryside of Montana which also contains facilities from a military base. The exhibition provides a view into natural landscapes in America that, while barren, bear markers of war and colonial history.

‘Dark Star/Grey Wolf’ is on view from 10 January to 22 February 2025 at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York. More information here.

The Journey Continues: Lee Wen’s Exploration of Identity

Lee Wen, ‘Journey of a Yellow Man No.7’, ‘Harvesting beauty in the fields (…following ) (Edition 1 of 5),’ 1995, photograph, 86.5 x 124.5cm (With Border). Image courtesy of iPRECIATION.

The late Singapore artist Lee Wen is known for his pivotal role in innovating performance art in Asia. This month, ‘The Journey Continues: Lee Wen’s Exploration of Identity’ celebrates his legacy in two exhibitions in Singapore: at ION Art Gallery and iPRECIATION Gallery. Lee Wen used authentic self expression and nuanced sociocultural observation of Asian society to create an oeuvre of photographs, paintings, drawings, and more. Moreover, the comprehensive survey of his practice allows viewers to reflect on his lasting influence as an artist who persistently created through restrictions against public performances.

‘The Journey Continues: Lee Wen’s Exploration of Identity’ is on view from 13 to 17 February 2025 at ION Art Gallery, Singapore and 13 February to 1 March 2025 at iPreciation Gallery, Singapore. More information about the ION Art Gallery exhibition here. More information about the iPRECIATION Gallery exhibition here.

The Red Chador: Becoming ROGUE

Anida Yoeu Ali, ‘Water Birth, The Red Chador: Genesis I,’ 2019, Kaiona Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, archival inkjet print, 75c x 112.50 cm. Photographed by Masahiro Sugano. Image courtesy of Studio Revolt.

Anida Yoeu Ali’s ‘The Red Chador: Becoming ROGUE’ is a culmination of more than a decade’s work on the chador, a robe worn by Muslim women to uphold modesty. Originating from Ali’s time in Paris during an uptick of Islamophobia, the artist created the persona to engender reflections on personal identity through spectacular appearance. The multimedia exhibition includes 28 distinct chadors, two neon artworks, six photographs, and a showing of the film The Red Chador: Stranded. Moreover, attendees are invited to reflect on the experiences of Muslim women by wearing and being photographed in any of the chadors on display, to be part of a collection of 99 images, a reference to the 99 names of Allah.

‘The Red Chador: Becoming ROGUE’ is on view from 8 February to 29 March 2025 at Warin Lab Contemporary in Bangkok. More information here.