Liu Yin’s cartoon-like paintings and drawings explore the ambivalences of love, nature, and consumerism. Their scenes belong to the realm of childhood dreams, expressing both desire and anxiety through delicate colors and playful figures.
Eileen Quinlan’s abstracted images, like Swipe , rely on the manipulation of photographic materials inside the studio itself, and reject the exterior world for complex interrogations of the medium....
Solid are the Winds: Aeolian Encounters at The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (Part I) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Natasha Harth for QAGOMA untitled (giran) (2018), Jonathan Jones in collaboration with Dr Uncle Stan Grant Snr AM January 10, 2019 By Marcus Yee (1259 words, five-minute read) This is the first of a two-part essay on the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial running at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, from 24 November 2018 to 28 April 2019...
Constructed out of metal or glass to mirror the size of FedEx shipping boxes, and to fit securely inside, Walead Beshty’s FedEx works are then shipped, accruing cracks, chips, scrapes, and bruises along the way to their destination...
Mullican’s Stick Figure Drawings depict characters reduced to their most basic graphic representation...
The photographed plaster heads set against the idyllic landscapes of the south of England, subvert the process of image production and memory...
This video installation was made for the exhibition “Journey to the West” held in January 2012 in New Delhi, where a group of curators invited six Japanese artists to produce a work to be made around the relationship between Japan and India...
Phinthong made four photographs depicting fragments of meteorites of which the faces have been polished to reflect the sky...
Pavel Aguilar, Carlos Amorales, Jonathas de Andrade, Pavel Aguilar, Edgardo Aragón, Fredi Casco, Rometti Costales, Sam Durant, León Ferrari, Joscelyn Gardner, Beatríz González, Pierre Huyghe, Guillermo Kuitca, Cristóbal Lehyt, Jesse Lerner, Alfredo López Morales, Teresa Margolles, Noé Martínez, Cildo Meireles, Eustaquio Neves, Nohemí Pérez, Naufus Ramírez Figueroa, Antonio Reynoso, Pablo Swezey and Carla Zaccagnini...
BIPAM 2021: Delight, despair, dialogue and the despot | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints September 17, 2021 By Nabilah Said (1,800 words, 6-minute read) I’ve never actually attended the Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting (BIPAM)...
ArtsEquator's Top 10 Picks at the Performing Arts Meeting 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles José Maceda, Cassettes 100, 1971, Photo by Nathaniel Gutierrez, Courtesy of UP Center for Ethnomusicology and Ringo Bunoan January 10, 2019 Established in 1995, the Tokyo Performing Arts Market (TPAM) was created to be a platform to network Japanese artists with producers and funders...
Galleries informed that art fair Art Stage Singapore cancelled (via The Straits Times) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar January 16, 2019 SINGAPORE – At least five galleries slated to participate in Art Stage Singapore say the art fair has been cancelled by organisers...
Transgression, triggers, and the thousand cuts of “Blunt Knife” | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo courtesy of the artist June 25, 2019 By Corrie Tan (2,700 words, 13 -minute read) Content Warning: Mentions of a sexual relationship involving a teenager This response contains major spoilers for Blunt Knife by Eng Kai Er and A Doll’s House by Theatre of Europe...
Untitled (rolled up) , is an abstract portrait of Owen Monk, the artist’s father and features an aluminum ring of 56.6 cm in diameter measuring 1.77 cm in circumference, the size of his father...