Gajah Gallery proudly presents The New Now III: Convergence, the latest edition of The New Now series, featuring 19 up-and-coming artists from across Southeast Asia. While previous iterations of the show have featured promising young Singaporean artists, this year we have expanded our scope to showcase the wealth of emerging talent throughout the region, including artists from the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.
The majority of the participating artists are current art students and recent graduates from prominent Southeast Asian art institutions – LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore; Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Singapore; the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta; Institut Teknologi Bandung, and Silpakorn University, Thailand. Each artist was handpicked for their aesthetic quality and conceptual explorations, and has been invited to respond to the curatorial framework of our show.
The exhibition theme draws from the Japanese idiom ichi-go, ichi-e, which translates as ‘one time, one meeting’, or ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ – the idea being that each moment in our lifetimes can only happen once and cannot be repeated or replicated in the same way ever again. Because of this, we are encouraged to appreciate all of life’s moments, as every instance, every opportunity, will always be the first and last time.
In our current climate, bombarded by hundreds and thousands of images and terabytes of information, how will these artists create works that encourage viewers to stay put in these fleeting moments and stand firm despite all of life’s turbulence?
The New Now III: Convergence presents a meeting point at which these unique artistic practices intersect; a showcase of works by artists from wildly different cultural axes yet inspired by the same theme. These works were created for the ‘now’, brought together for one moment in time that can never be repeated.
Artists: Dini Nur Aghnia (Indonesia), Enggar Rhomadioni (Indonesia), Fazrin Abdul Rahman (Malaysia), Gabby Prado (Philippines), Galih Adika Paripurna (Indonesia), Jemana Murti (Indonesia), Jono Pisano (Philippines), Kara Inez (Malaysia), Leela Promwong (Thailand), Lou Lim (Philippines), Mahalakshmi Kannappan (Singapore), Maneerat Thamnarak (Thailand), Mandy Zhuang Xuehong (Singapore), Napanat Gler Tae (Thailand), Nurul Ezzaty (Singapore), Raigo Law (Singapore), Sita Inyai (Thailand), Teo Esguerra (Philippines), Veronica Peralejo (Philippines)
Opening Night: 7 August 2019, 7 – 9pm
Exhibition duration: 7 – 25 August 2019
Venue: Gajah Gallery, 39 Keppel Road, 03-04, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
Opening Hours: 11am – 7pm Weekdays, 12noon – 6pm Weekends & PH
Free entry
When: 7 - 25 Aug 2019,
By: Gajah Gallery
