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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Grace Wright, Deep Symmetry
Yavuz Gallery, Singapore, Singapore
15 April —
28 May 2023
Aotearoa New Zealand artist Grace Wright’s atmospheric paintings are all-consuming, inviting the viewer into a baroque world of tangled gestures. Markings on the canvas twist and convulse about themselves to build an anarchic structure before unravelling to moments of repose. While Wright’s gestures may be abstract, she views her paintings as representational narratives, evoking the tempestuous rhythm of the natural world, while alluding to 17th-century religious paintings.
Deep Symmetry, the artist's first solo exhibition in Asia, explores a recent evolution of Wright’s practice as a result of her time in Europe in the latter half of 2022. Its title was inspired by the architectural geometries of the Sainte Chapelle in Paris, France, and a quote by writer Karl Ove Knausgaard: “Life is irregularity, death is geometry”.
Aotearoa New Zealand artist Grace Wright’s atmospheric paintings are all-consuming, inviting the viewer into a baroque world of tangled gestures. Markings on the canvas twist and convulse about themselves to build an anarchic structure before unravelling to moments of repose. While Wright’s gestures may be abstract, she views her paintings as representational narratives, evoking the tempestuous rhythm of the natural world, while alluding to 17th-century religious paintings.
Deep Symmetry, the artist's first solo exhibition in Asia, explores a recent evolution of Wright’s practice as a result of her time in Europe in the latter half of 2022. Its title was inspired by the architectural geometries of the Sainte Chapelle in Paris, France, and a quote by writer Karl Ove Knausgaard: “Life is irregularity, death is geometry”.
Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Sriwhana Spong and Pati Tyrell, 'Legacies' international tour
ADM Gallery Singapore; Stelo, Portland, USA; LUX, London; Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany; Storage Art Space, Bangkok
03 April —
01 October 2023
Legacies, CIRCUIT's 2022 programme of artist cinema commissions of works by Aotearoa artists Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Sriwhana Spong and Pati Tyrell, will be shown at international galleries and festivals, from Singapore to Oberhausen. Curated by CIRCUIT’s 2022/23 curator-at-large Dr May Adadol Ingawanij (Thai/UK), Legacies began with a series of prompts Ingawanij sent to the artists about the potential meaning and resonance of the term.
“Legacies are that which we carry, sometimes with pride and sometimes with shame, as the basis of social bonding, whether as things a people embodies with pride or as an enduring pain, a burden, some kind of ghost. Legacies as: the pre-modern artistic, cultural, linguistic and religious heritages of the place and land that you were born into and raised in; through to the legacies of colonisation, and the spectres of nations and nationalisms; the legacies of the modern art/film histories; the narratives and ways of knowing that shaped you, and that bring an ambivalence and a desire to undo.” - May Adadol Ingawanij
The screening details are as follows:
- ADM Gallery, Singapore (Installation, 03 April - 05 May)
- Stelo, Portland, USA (Screening, 21 April)
- LUX, London (Screening/Talk by May Ingawanij, Sriwhana Spong and CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams, 26 April)
- Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany (Screening, 28 April)
- Storage Art Space, Bangkok (Installation, 03 August - 01 October and Gathering/Talk, 06 August).
Legacies, CIRCUIT's 2022 programme of artist cinema commissions of works by Aotearoa artists Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Sriwhana Spong and Pati Tyrell, will be shown at international galleries and festivals, from Singapore to Oberhausen. Curated by CIRCUIT’s 2022/23 curator-at-large Dr May Adadol Ingawanij (Thai/UK), Legacies began with a series of prompts Ingawanij sent to the artists about the potential meaning and resonance of the term.
“Legacies are that which we carry, sometimes with pride and sometimes with shame, as the basis of social bonding, whether as things a people embodies with pride or as an enduring pain, a burden, some kind of ghost. Legacies as: the pre-modern artistic, cultural, linguistic and religious heritages of the place and land that you were born into and raised in; through to the legacies of colonisation, and the spectres of nations and nationalisms; the legacies of the modern art/film histories; the narratives and ways of knowing that shaped you, and that bring an ambivalence and a desire to undo.” - May Adadol Ingawanij
The screening details are as follows:
- ADM Gallery, Singapore (Installation, 03 April - 05 May)
- Stelo, Portland, USA (Screening, 21 April)
- LUX, London (Screening/Talk by May Ingawanij, Sriwhana Spong and CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams, 26 April)
- Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany (Screening, 28 April)
- Storage Art Space, Bangkok (Installation, 03 August - 01 October and Gathering/Talk, 06 August).
Brian Fuata at Singapore Biennale 2022
Tanjong Pagar Distripark and various locations, Singapore
16 October 2022 —
19 March 2023
At the seventh edition of the Singapore Biennale, named Natasha, Brian Fuata will present Untitled (Intermission) (2022), a series of structured improvisations comprising spoken word, vocalised sounds, and movements.
The new work is a continuation of Fuata’s previous work Intermission (first staged at the ANTI Festival in Finland) and, taking place during the opening week of the Biennale, is grounded by the kinesthetic practice of BodyWeather. BodyWeather is a philosophical approach to performance founded in the early 1980s by Japanese dancer Min Tanaka. This approach conceives the body not as a stable unitary subject, but a changing and complex system of forces, like the weather. This performance is also framed by the concept of autophagy, a metabolic process of renewal by removing old components, in which each successive performance builds upon and deletes components from the previous iteration.
At the seventh edition of the Singapore Biennale, named Natasha, Brian Fuata will present Untitled (Intermission) (2022), a series of structured improvisations comprising spoken word, vocalised sounds, and movements.
The new work is a continuation of Fuata’s previous work Intermission (first staged at the ANTI Festival in Finland) and, taking place during the opening week of the Biennale, is grounded by the kinesthetic practice of BodyWeather. BodyWeather is a philosophical approach to performance founded in the early 1980s by Japanese dancer Min Tanaka. This approach conceives the body not as a stable unitary subject, but a changing and complex system of forces, like the weather. This performance is also framed by the concept of autophagy, a metabolic process of renewal by removing old components, in which each successive performance builds upon and deletes components from the previous iteration.
Talia Smith and Edith Amituanai, The Salt of the Earth
Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore
16 September —
30 October 2022
The Salt of the Earth is a group exhibition that explores the way in which family and the ties that bind, shape and inform who we are. From family archives to the way culture is presented in migrant lounge rooms to objects that represent the strength of culture and love to the grief of losing a mother who represented your connection to culture, each artist takes their lived experiences to show the inextricable way that our familial histories – no matter how hard or easy those relationships may be – continue to shape us. Although there are common threads that can be woven throughout each artist’s work, The Salt of the Earth as an exhibition aims to assert that families are multifaceted and complex, and perhaps the true beauty is within the way that our different experiences are celebrated.
Curated by Talia Smith and featuring the work of Edith Amituanai. There will be a public talk with Talia Smith on the 18th of September, from 4-5 pm. More info on the SIPF website.
The Salt of the Earth is a group exhibition that explores the way in which family and the ties that bind, shape and inform who we are. From family archives to the way culture is presented in migrant lounge rooms to objects that represent the strength of culture and love to the grief of losing a mother who represented your connection to culture, each artist takes their lived experiences to show the inextricable way that our familial histories – no matter how hard or easy those relationships may be – continue to shape us. Although there are common threads that can be woven throughout each artist’s work, The Salt of the Earth as an exhibition aims to assert that families are multifaceted and complex, and perhaps the true beauty is within the way that our different experiences are celebrated.
Curated by Talia Smith and featuring the work of Edith Amituanai. There will be a public talk with Talia Smith on the 18th of September, from 4-5 pm. More info on the SIPF website.
Grace Wright, This is 2022
Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
14 January —
27 January 2022
Yavuz Gallery is excited to present This is 2022, a group exhibition featuring leading international artists from the Asia-Pacific in conjunction with Singapore Art Week 2022, including work from Aotearoa artist Grace Wright.
This is 2022 highlights the Gallery’s mission to celebrate artists on global platforms and promote intercultural dialogue through contemporary art. It recognises the diversity and the strength of the Asia-Pacific region, through a key selection of artists working across painting, photography, sculpture and textile.
Yavuz Gallery is excited to present This is 2022, a group exhibition featuring leading international artists from the Asia-Pacific in conjunction with Singapore Art Week 2022, including work from Aotearoa artist Grace Wright.
This is 2022 highlights the Gallery’s mission to celebrate artists on global platforms and promote intercultural dialogue through contemporary art. It recognises the diversity and the strength of the Asia-Pacific region, through a key selection of artists working across painting, photography, sculpture and textile.