ArtAsiaPacific: Rina Banerjee

Published May/June 2018 issue of ArtAsiaPacific. To read full article, visit the magazine's Digital Library.

“Amiable and expressive, Banerjee inhabits a world constructed of metaphors and symbols. An apple is an apple, until it is not—some days it represents a location, a cold place where the fruit grows; other days, it is the tale of sin, of Adam and Eve. Her sculptural assemblages of found and sourced objects that she has been making since the mid-1990s and which have been shown in institutions and festivals worldwide, act as translation vessels for these historical-social symbols.”

ArtAsiaPacific: Review of Danh Vo

Published May/June 2018 issue of ArtAsiaPacific. To read full article, visit the magazine's Digital Library.

“Despite the visual splendor, the artist’s usual radical takeaways, whether on US imperialism or autoerotic asphyxiation, were absent; the effects were watered down. (Curators Katherine Brinson, with Susan Thompson and Ylinka Barotto, perhaps anticipating that viewers might be bored by the nonabrasive showcase, withheld full descriptions of several series until the top floor, leaving teasers of information as visitors circled upward.)”

ArtAsiaPacific: Jes Fan

Published May/June 2018 issue of ArtAsiaPacific. To read full article, visit the magazine's Digital Library.

“‘Bodies are not born. They are made.’ This quote, by feminist, bio-anthropologist Donna Haraway, fueled a talk on the social wiring of gender by Brooklyn-based artist Jes Fan, presented one Saturday morning at a symposium organized by Hong Kong’s Para Site and hosted at Spring Workshop. In the same space was a scattering of “flesh-tone” silicone moldings of barbells and Nike slippers, the raised texture of which resembles a bed of nipples.”

ArtAsiaPacific: Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran

Published May/June 2018 issue of ArtAsiaPacific. To read full article, visit the magazine's Digital Library.

"Binding narratives from Hinduism and Christianity, imagery from indigenous folklore and the neo-spiritualities that shape our consciousness and aid our psychological wellbeing, Nithiyendran forms little (and large) fiendish creatures that, when installed together, form a quasi-religious shrine customized for the contemporary earthly dweller."

ArtAsiaPacific: Andrew Luk

Published March/Apr 2018 issue of ArtAsiaPacific. To read full article, visit the magazine's Digital Library. (Click on the image to scroll through the pages.) 

"From afar, one sees a lunar surface: craggy, alluvial and glimmering with extraterrestrial detritus. Up close, the layers begin to shift: we spot the flat, hard plane of metal against an orange, fibrous material, and a glossy smattering of micro-bubbles floating in resin. A light from behind casts gradual tonal variations on the landscape. Yet it’s not a slice of the moon after all, but a self-enclosed scenery created by Hong Kong-based Andrew Luk."