Beasts, Breasts & Beauty displays contemporary artworks by Southeast Asia’s influential and up-and-coming artists. This extensive collection spanning from the mid 90s to the present, is put together by Singapore-based French national Jean-Louis Morisot and his wife curator and critic Iola Lenzi.
Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most ethnically, religiously and culturally diverse regions. Like the rest of Asia, it has experienced unprecedented transformation in recent decades. Yet, it is little understood beyond its borders.
Many may ponder the real essence of art in this region – what defines Southeast Asian; what is the art of Southeast Asia; and what does contemporary art entail. Definitions can be diverse, yet the attachment to history remains.
The thematically varied paintings, sculpture, video and multi-media installations from different Southeast Asian nations form an eclectic group. Yet, it is the collection’s very plurality of vision, along with its artistic rigour that gives it sense and direction, enabling it to reveal the region in all its contemporary complexity.
The collection reflects the couple’s taste for political art and the aesthetically off-beat. It contains a significant number of the region’s seminal contemporary names, as well as up-and-coming young talents. Many pieces from the collection are fun as well as offering sharp socio-political commentary.
The audience will get to see artists Sutee Kunavichayanont’s inflatable latex and kinetic sculptures, Pinaree Sanpitak’s breast-shaped cushions, Arahmaiani’s floating wedding party sewn out of political banners,Heri Dono’s flying angel, and Jason Lim’s ceramics-cum-performance art previously shown and performed at the Venice Biennale in 2007.
6 - 29 May 2008
Monday to Friday 11am - 7pm, Saturday 11am - 5pm, & closed on Sunday.
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