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Reopening ISA: Summers Hang
We are reopening back our offline gallery after almost 4 months of operating fully online to ensure everyone’s safety. Our "Summer Hang" is a group show of artists, ranging from young contemporary Indonesian to the old masters. To continue our emphasis on female artists we have new large-scale works by the female Malaysian-based artist Chong Siew Ying with “At Dawn”, 2020, Lu Hsin Ying with “Period of Tide”, 2019, as well as “Garam di Laut, Asam di Gunung, Bertemu dalam Belanga” series by Etza Meisyara.
Chong Siew Ying (b. 1969, Kuala Lumpur) left Malaysia for France in 1990 to pursue her studies in Fine Art. Chong Siew Ying’s practice is grounded in both Eastern and Western painterly sensibilities. Although well known for her dynamic gestural brush strokes and expressive compositions, she continues to develop new techniques and approaches to subject matter to explore painting as a distinct form of visual poetry.
Liu Hsin-Ying (b. 1991, Taiwan) was trained at the Art Students League in New York in 2013 and at the Department of Fine Art, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, graduating in 2015. She works in a variety of mediums and approaches such as painting, drawing, video and performance art, drawing inspiration from the personal and cerebral. She is currently based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Etza Meisyara is a (b.1991, Bandung) is a multimedia artist, a Fine Arts graduate at the Bandung Institute of Technology, who is concerned with the issue of conversion, which is studied, in the artistic dimension relating to science and technology. Her works are often sounds, installations, performance, and visual arts. She is the recipient of the Young Creator (2nd Winner) award from Tokyo Design Week 2015. She has often participated in exhibitions or multimedia performances at national and international levels.
Our summer hang also includes a new selection of secondary market works such as Heri Dono, Agus Suwage and Christine Ay Tjoe. They are the first and second generation of Indonesian artists that experienced the Indonesian and Southeast Asian art-market boom post 2004 -2005, with works successfully entering the auction scene and steadily increasing in price.
From our ongoing online exhibition “Corporeal/Material”, we are exhibiting some of the printed photographs in our gallery: “Writing in the Rain” and “Destruction” by FX Harsono; a seminal figure in the Indonesian contemporary art scene with a career spanning four decades, and an active critic of Indonesian politics, society, and culture, “Shadow of the Past” by Arahmaiani ; Indonesian female artist-activist, as well as “Di Atas Angin” series by Jim Allen Abel ;a fine-art photographer, actively creating with photography collective MES56.
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