This interview with Singaporean artist Faris Nakamura is part of a series of interviews highlighting the shortlisted artists for The 2023 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, the 19th edition of Asia’s most prestigious prize for contemporary artists.
This interview with Filipino artist Cian Dayrit is part of a series of interviews highlighting the shortlisted artists for The 2023 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, the 19th edition of Asia’s most prestigious prize for contemporary artists.
AWDB talks to conservator Daisy Green about preventive conservation, and its significance in the visual arts industry. Green’s Art Conservation brings museum and heritage quality preventive conservation practices to contemporary galleries, private collectors, and artists.
This interview with Filipino artist Bjorn Calleja is part of a series of interviews highlighting the shortlisted artists for The 2023 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, the 19th edition of Asia’s most prestigious prize for contemporary artists.
This interview with Alisa Chunchue is part of a series of interviews highlighting the shortlisted artists for The 2023 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Alisa Chunchue was the recipient of the highest scoring female artist and received the Vogue Hong Kong Women’s Art Prize 2023 for her work ‘Wound’.
Mapping and story-telling are running threads that connect Melissa Tan’s artistic output, from the earlier works that take psycho-geography and the texture of rocks as points of departure to her recent interest in narratives embedded in the stars. Even as her subject shifts from the earth to the sky, the Singaporean artist carries a meticulous attention to detail in the creation of her works.
The capital of Thailand’s name, Bangkok, hints at the city’s organic nature: Some scholars have suggested that it stems from the contraction of bang (บาง), meaning village, and makok (มะกอก), referring to a plant bearing olive-like fruit. With its rhizomatic structure and bottom-to-top dynamic, Bangkok’s art ecosystem epitomizes this characteristic perfectly.
Taring Padi is an art collective based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, formed in 1998 after the fall of President Suharto’s New Order regime. They are known for rejecting the notion of art for art’s sake, and use their work to convey socio-political messages. Their name refers to the sharp tip of the rice plant, which, upon contact with the skin, can cause it to itch.
The 2022 Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB) connects the dots of the contemporary, with more than 200 artworks by 73 artists reflecting on our precarious condition as human beings and the accumulating threats to planet earth. Presented across 12 venues in Bangkok, inaugurated by the Biennale’s two previous editions: Beyond Bliss in 2018 and Escape Routes in 2020.
In this conversation, held earlier on the occasion of their two-person exhibition ‘Bukang Liwayway’ at Silverlens Gallery in Manila, the artists share the process of making and working on their exhibition. They speak about the haunting of history in Filipino art, the medium of paper, the work of collaboration, and the role of language and nature in their works.
Amidst the buzz of Singapore Art Week, ShanghART Gallery presented a two-part performance-lecture series by Melati Suryodarmo, curated by Kimberly Shen. Through a series of “mini-performances”, the artist presented a selection of previous iterations from her practice within the last two decades.
Pen Robit is a Cambodian artist who explores the socio-political fabric of Cambodia. Through figurative and abstract paintings, he examines the country’s past, present and future through the use of Cambodian cultural iconography. In this conversation, we ask Pen about his background in fine art and circus performance, his thoughts on the Cambodian art scene, and the ideas behind his artistic motifs.
In this conversation with A&M, Kee Liong discusses the relationship between photography and time, and the materiality of printed images, as well as his connection with 5th Passage, a pivotal artist-run initiative active during the early 1990s in Singapore.
In this conversation with A&M, Isa Lorenzo and Rachel Rillo talk about how they each got their start in the art world, the zig-zags they have gone through with Silverlens, and the exciting plans they are working on with their new permanent location.
A collaboration between two initiatives championing Southeast Asian art outside of the region, Rituals and Rebirths was a provocative and compelling exhibition that took place at London’s Cromwell Place in May of this year. Curated by Peruke Projects in partnership with A.I. Gallery, it featured three diverse Southeast Asian artists, each one exploring their individual diasporic experiences.
This interview with Pham Huy Thong is part of a series of interviews highlighting the shortlisted artists for The 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Pham Huy Thong (Vietnam) was shortlisted for his work ‘Reincarnation Wheel 1’. The work takes inspiration from all our lives, whether we are rich or poor, as we fight every day to pursue happiness.
This interview with Sarah Choo Jing is part of a series of interviews highlighting the shortlisted artists for The 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Sarah Choo Jing (Singapore) was shortlisted for her work ‘156 Emerald Hill’. A transitory site, the artwork sets the stage in depicting ignored seams and forgotten vistas, promising a utopian and apocalyptic site.
This interview with Zulkifli Lee is part of a series of interviews highlighting the shortlisted artists for The 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Zulkifli Lee (Malaysia) was shortlisted for his work ‘Myth Party’, contemplating the paradoxical coincidence of opposites. According to the artist, all paradoxes can be reconciled; nature is built in opposites.
This interview with Robert Zhao Renhui is part of a series of interviews highlighting the shortlisted artists for The 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Robert Zhao Renhui (Singapore) was shortlisted for his work ‘And A Great Sign Appeared (Things from the Heat)’ capturing a moment on 22 December 2019, when thousands of birds suddenly appeared in Singapore. They were Asian Open Bill storks: birds foreign to Singapore.
This interview with Nguyễn Văn Đủ is part of a series of interviews highlighting the shortlisted artists for The 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize – the 18th edition of Asia’s most prestigious prize for contemporary artists. Nguyễn Văn Đủ (Vietnam) was shortlisted for his work ‘Today’s landscape (The Land of Holes) No.01’, depicting a quarry at Dinh Mountain in Vietnam, dating to the French colonial period and still exploited today.
This interview with Lê Thúy is part of a series of interviews highlighting the shortlisted artists for The 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize – the 18th edition of Asia’s most prestigious prize for contemporary artists. Lê Thúy was shortlisted for her work ‘Garden of Eden’. The now silenced instrument, with its veneer of loss and loneliness, stands in quiet testament to those people of no status, who have no voice.
This interview with Jel Suarez is part of a series of interviews highlighting the shortlisted artists for The 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize – the 18th edition of Asia’s most prestigious prize for contemporary artists. Jel Suarez was shortlisted for her work ‘Folding a Landscape’, taking the form of a 56-page accordion featuring collages and markings in rhythmic stone and mountain forms, displayed in a cave-like stance.
This interview with Boo Sze Yang is part of a series of interviews highlighting the shortlisted artists for The 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize – the 18th edition of Asia’s most prestigious prize for contemporary artists. Selected from over 400 entries, the finalists hail from 16 countries and regions across Asia-Pacific.
This interview with Alvin Ong is part of a series of interviews highlighting the shortlisted artists for The 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize – the 18th edition of Asia’s most prestigious prize for contemporary artists. Selected from over 400 entries, the finalists hail from 16 countries and regions across Asia-Pacific.
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