Exhibition
Empty Vase
Haffendi Anuar
Eisa Jocson
Tae Parvit
Sung Tieu
Tromarama
Duration_ September 14–October 19, 2019
Opening_ Saturday, September 14, 2019, 6–8 PM
Opening_ Saturday, September 14, 2019, 6–8 PM
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Gallery Vacancy is pleased to present Empty Vase from September 14th to October 19th, 2019. Featuring five artists, Haffendi Anuar, Eisa Jocson, Tae Parvit, Sung Tieu, and Tromarama, who share a similar Southeast Asian cultural background but practicing globally through life and work, the show will present their recent artworks as a way to examine the reflection of individuality and human body in relations to the current urban landscape.
Our body determines beyond physical existence and no longer bind us to a place. Perceiving under the influence of the consistent movement of the organic self, body constructs and mirrors daily encounters spatially, psychologically and mental sensationally. Le Corbusier’s theory of “Modual” introduced the idea of architecture as the vessel of body, serving further than a reinforced concrete installation or a glassware ready to protect its users, but corresponding with the anatomical structure of human body both functionally and conformationally. Through moving and breathing, the body’s and the building’s stimulation of naturality leads to mutual imitation that constructs typical characteristics for certain location. As a region with deep-rooted geographical and traditional culture, Southeast Asia has been deeply influenced by its colonial history in modernization and urbanization. This exhibition is closely related to the artist's personal identities and their conception explorations. The body's intervention to the environment recurs, breaking and reconstructing the existing space. Filipino dancer and performance artist Eisa Jocson tempts to navigate the inherited perception of urban public environment with her body intervention by interacting with monumental architectural forms. Haffendi Anuar's sculptures are constantly influenced by nature, the colonial architecture and traditional motifs of his hometown Kuala Lumpur, combining with his unique and slightly bizarre aesthetics. Born in Vietnam and raised in Germany, Sung Tieu demonstrates the incorporation of usage by a variety of media and materials, showing a wide range of interests in the global context. Her work poetically portraits the examination of her year-long séjour in a historical and political perspective. Tae Parvit’s paintings are directly connected to his life and social experiences in the suburban area of Bangkok. With the art historical information scavenged from old magazines, flea markets, street fashion, internet musics and visuals, he reconstructs and cooperates these easily accessible daily materials into his installations. The Indonesian artist collective Tromarama employs playful humor as a way to observe the relationship between visual reality and everyday life. Us and the city we live in correspond and echo with each other through daily construction and digestion. |
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