Photo by Minh Red Nguyễn Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần is an art laborer based in Saigon. She creates art both collectively and individually and also curates and writes. Her artworks combine politics and sci-fi aesthetics through the use of animation, 3D design, historical archives, and architecture. Arlette is fascinated by the idea of a futuristic Third […]
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Photo by Kenta Chai Liew Kwai Fei (b. 1979, Kuantan, Pahang) is recognised today as among the most exciting new generation of contemporary painters in Malaysia. Spanning over a decade, his practice explores the hybridity of the painting medium and its capacity to communicate ideas spanning class, race, and language to the humbling experience of
Photo by Elisabeth Desiana Mayasari (ED Mayasari) Timoteus Anggawan Kusno is a visual artist and filmmaker who composes and expands his works in various mediums, including installations and institutional interventions. He renders narratives stretching in the liminality of fiction, history, imagination, and memory. Kusno draws questions on the coloniality of power and what remains left
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Photo by Maruto Ardi Ade Darmawan (b. 1974, Jakarta, Indonesia) lives and works in Jakarta as an artist, curator and director of ruangrupa. Darmawan’s work deals with Indonesia, its history and its people, with a particular focus on minor histories that may seem irrelevant but are intrinsic to the DNA of the communities addressed. His
Photo by Lee Wei Swee For over three decades, Pinaree Sanpitak has explored her sense of being in the world, emanating from and in dialogue with her own body and experiences. Deploying a concise vocabulary of signifiers in a sensual, minimal style, Sanpitak reduces her artistic language to its essence to create a joyful experience
Wantanee Siripattananuntakul is a Thai artist based in Thailand. In 1998, she received her B.F.A. in Sculpture from the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts at Silpakorn University, Bangkok. She then studied at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen in Germany, where she became a Meisterschüler under Prof. Jean-François Guiton. Her multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture,
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Taiki Sakpisit is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Bangkok, renowned for his innovative approach to storytelling and his profound exploration of Thailand’s complex history. Through the lens of cinema, Sakpisit unpacks the nation’s turbulent past, infusing his experimental films with a subtle yet resounding political commitment. His works delve into the underlying tensions,
Haiza Putti in her studio in Jakarta. Image courtesy of Ezra Reyhan. Haiza Putti (b. 1998) graduated from the Fine Arts program at the Faculty of Art and Design ITB in 2020. Haiza focuses on visual exploration and the physical boundaries and expansion of the medium of expression in her paintings. Haiza’s works bring narratives
In a career spanning over two decades, Hoang Duong Cam (b. 1974, Hanoi) dexterously alternates between painting, photography, video, installation, performance, and collaborative projects. Central to his artworks are the often humorous, sometimes absurdist explorations of the complex mechanisms that connect the self and its surroundings. The density of detail seen in much of Hoang’s
Nipan Oranniwesna (b. 1962, Bangkok) is an artist who pursues his interests to explore the relationships that arise between people and spaces. He appreciates the importance of public spaces that are constructed and transformed into a tool that impels people to access memories personal and collective alike. As such, Nipan tends to work with a