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TOP TEN 2024

It has been a great honor to write, converse, and think alongside the artmakers of Southeast Asia for the last two years. This TOP TEN list, while shedding light on critical artistic practice and unconventional exhibitions, is nowhere near exhaustive. Wrapping up 2024 and preparing for 2025 with a heart filled with joy and gratitude. […]

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Kuala Lumpur: Titik Garis Bentuk: Drawing as Practice

One of the oldest art forms known to humankind, drawing has witnessed something of a renaissance in today’s concept-heavy art world. Walking through “Titik Garis Bentuk: Drawing As Practice,” one could not help but notice the endless spectrum of possibilities embedded within this universal and ubiquitous medium: explorations of form, elements of social critique, and the illustration of cultural memory.

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Kuala Lumpur: Nirmala Dutt

Her painting series “Great Leap Forward,” 1998–99, bore testament to the vanity of modernization by constructing a domain from which loomed the gunungan—a distinguished triangle symbolizing the universe in traditional Indonesian wayang kulit performances. Nonetheless, Dutt suggests that the sanctity of this cosmic realm has been tainted by the infringing consequences of unchecked developmentalism.

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Yogyakarta: Nadiah Bamadhaj

In Lanang Pijar, 2023, a featureless, horned face made of patinated cast brass in a robin’s-egg blue tone looms high above eye level. Suspended beneath it is a droplet-shaped resin womb covered unevenly in goat hide and internally lit. For The Harvest, 2023, a metal hook attached to a buffalo-hide heart supports a tapering cluster of navy-blue, silver-streaked testes, from which delicate metal rods sprout forth like mycelium.

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