CHOK SI XUAN X MARYANTO

Maryanto (b. 1977, Indonesia) creates powerful monochromatic paintings and monumental installations that dissect socio-political structures through the depiction of landscapes. His works investigate the impact of technological development, industrialisation, pollution, and resource exploitation on the natural world, reflecting the harsh realities in his home country. Through fable-like and theatrical settings, Maryanto’s landscapes present deeply urgent concerns around the encroachment of the environment, both physical and cultural.

Maryanto has had solo exhibitions and presentations in Indonesia, Amsterdam, Singapore, Korea, Dubai, London, Hong Kong and Australia. He has participated in various biennales including the 2nd Industrial Biennale, Labin, Croatia (2018); Koganei Art Spot Chateau, Tokyo (2018); Setouchi Triennale, Naoshima, Japan (2016); Jakarta and Jogja Biennales, Indonesia (2015), Jeonnam International Sumuk Biennale (2025), etc. Other notable institutional group exhibitions include MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand (2021); Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta (2020); Yeo Workshop, Singapore (2019, 2017 and 2015); Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide; the Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju; the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (2017); Singapore Art Museum (2015); Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; ArtAffairs, Amsterdam; and Heden, Denhaag (2013), Swiss National Museum Zurich Switzerland (2024), Muan Museum of Art Korea (2025). Fairs he has participated in include: Art Basel Focus, Hong Kong, Art Jakarta, ARTSG, ArtStage, Art Dubai Bawabba Solo presentation, Frieze Korea. His works are in the public collections of Kadist Foundation; Tropen Museum, Netherlands; Macan Museum, Indonesia; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory: MAGNT, Australia; among others.

Chok Si Xuan (Singapore) is an artist who works with installations. Interested in cybernetics, specifically the feedback systems that occur between humans, living organisms and machines, she is curious about how post-human cultures and industrial materials shape the way contemporary society understands itself. She constructs and readapts systems within installations in hopes of challenging our own subjectivities of our environment, bodies and other organisms, organic or manufactured. Using predominantly found electronic objects, her choice of materials, and systems become a way to tap into the relationships we already have, expressing our shared likeness in them.

Within her practice, her current focus explores the concept of emergence within natural environments and man made systems. Pursuing the points of tensions between the material, immaterial, human, organic and mechanical, constructing installations out of found objects and systems that exist in our everyday lives, and using such systems and technologies to expand our physical reality.

Text courtesy Yeo Workshop.