Ocula Conversation Thao Nguyen Phan: Dangerous Optimism Tessa Moldan, Brussels With Monsoon Melody on view at WIELS, Brussels, her largest solo exhibition to date, Thao Nguyen Phan discusses her transition to film to explore colonial legacies and ecological destruction in Vietnam.
Ocula Report Frieze Los Angeles: Shows to See Tessa Moldan, Los Angeles Los Angeles' art scene has a lot to offer during Frieze Los Angeles, with galleries, non-profits, and museums gearing up for the fair's second edition between 14 and 17 February 2020. In this Ocula Lowdown, Tessa Moldan lists a selection of the city's must-see shows.
Ocula Insight Jaki Irvine's Manifesto on Life at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Apoorva Rajagopal, Dublin Ack Ro' , Jaki Irvine's reflection on the fragility of life at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, is an 'ambitious, holistic installation' staged like a 'wild disarray of interconnected yet fragmented pieces'.
Chen Qiulin is one of the younger generation of Chinese contemporary artists, employing a variety of medias including video, photography, installations and so on. Her works have not only participated series of important international and domestic group / sole exhibitions in Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Max ProtetchGallery, Long March Space, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Honolulu Museum of Art, but also collected by many domestic and overseas art museums and private collectors. Her works often concern about the marginalized populations and cultures in China's urbanization process, through which she thinks about now by telling old stories.
Ocula Report Taipei Lowdown: Shows to See Tessa Moldan, Taipei As Taipei Dangdai returns for its second edition between 17 and 19 January 2020 at the Nangang Exhibition Center, a selection of exhibitions across the city confirm Taipei as one of the region's most exciting art hubs.
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Related Press 'That Has Been, and May Be Again' at Para Site, Hong Kong 29 July 2016, ArtAsiaPacific Opened alongside Para Site’s 4th annual International Conference (6/21–23), That Has Been, and May Be Again is an exhibition honoring the multitude of voices that have arisen throughout 1980s and ’90s China, that speak to the search for a cultural and political identity during the country’s modernization. The diverse...
Related Press Hong Kong show of underground 1990s Chinese art offers different perspective on era 27 June 2016, South China Morning Post A new show at Hong Kong’s Para Site exhibition space is a reminder that mainstream narratives have a tendency to obscure what artists do during periods of great political change. Those narratives affect how we see art history. After the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, it was assumed that the restrictive environment forced artists to...
Related Press One Giant Tofu Block, One Hundred Names: Chen Qiulin Launches Her Career-survey Exhibition 3 June 2016, Broadsheet On Bridge Road, Richmond's Tofu Shop International is working on its strangest request yet. The brief: a 40cm x 40cm x 7cm cube of its firmest (not finest) bean-curd mix. As Rebecca Coates, director of the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), says, 'Silken just won't work.' The giant block of tofu is being made and carefully transported to SAM in time...
