AXIS BY PRAXIS
A MEETING PLACE
12 - 26 Jan 2019
G13 Gallery is proudly present the second series of joined Southeast Asia exhibition ‘Axis by Praxis: A Meeting Place’ to open the year 2019 exhibition calendar. ‘Axis by Praxis’ will featuring five current emerging talents from Southeast Asia, with the aim to look into the region’s art practice through the works of Ho Mei Kei (Malaysia), Nik M Shazmie (Malaysia), Natisa Jones (Indonesia), Anchalee Arayapongpanich (Thailand), and Kittisak Thapkoa (Thailand).
Interest in Southeast Asia art over the years signaling the growing reception from the global market and it shows no sign of slowing down. The demand in the big art events such as biennales and art fairs signify the importance of Southeast Asian art to the global contemporary art development. Within the epochal development in the region’s history, the artist featured in ‘Axis by Praxis: A Meeting Place’ reflect its diversity while at the same time shared a similar sensibility: experimentation with media; and the dynamics of identity in relation with tradition, culture and history.
Malaysian artists, Ho Mei Kei and Nik M Shazmie take on different aspect of social life where the entanglement within power relation is inevitable. Ho Mei Kei exploring the concept of play in her criticism towards the educational system. While Nik M Shazmie had looking into the history of the region where the concept of ‘serumpun’ (one root) often used as a tagline to foster regional unity between SEA countries. Natisa Jones, Bali and Amsterdam based artist, explore the experience of everydayness and how to contemplate with it as a process. Both Thai artists, Anchalee Arayapongpanich and Kittisak Thapkoa, contrasting each other while interspersing the subjects of similar weight in current contemporary SEA society. The former looking into a film culture as a framework of feminine empowerment. While the latter goes back to the tradition of Buddhist symbolism, confronting the reality of today’s materialistic morality.
Axis by Praxis: A Meeting Place is a site of progressive and passionate artistic production, set as a micro survey of Southeast Asia emerging artist, in the midst of urban growth, modernization and globalization. Furthermore, the expanding contemporary art business demands a rigorous effort in its production and distribution. Axis by Praxis is an attempt to provide an access, as well as to broaden artist’s visibility to art world, both locally and internationally. This project exhibition is a gesture to the process of becoming, a site driven by creativity and connectivity.
‘Axis by Praxis: A Meeting Place’ runs from 12nd until 26th January 2019 at G13 Gallery. Gallery opens daily from 11am to 5pm, closed on Sundays and Public Holidays.
Fikirkan perbelanjaan dan pendapatan bulanan anda
Ho Mei Kei
80x100cm
Oil, Acrylic and Color Pencil on Canvas
2018
Fikirkan perbelanjaan dan pendapatan bulanan anda
Ho Mei Kei
80x100cm
Oil, Acrylic and Color Pencil on Canvas
2018
Pilih kad telekomunikasi yang anda gunakan
Ho Mei Kei
80x100cm
Oil, Acrylic and Color Pencil on Canvas
2018
Pilih kad telekomunikasi yang anda gunakan
Ho Mei Kei
80x100cm
Oil, Acrylic and Color Pencil on Canvas
2018
The Desk I
Natisa Jones
80x40cm
Acrylic on Cotton Canvas
2018
Artist Statement
“The Desk” series, is a body of work which treats various individual figures in a reoccurring position –however, each distinctive and isolated to its own momentum. “The Desk” explores the idea of routine: figures are sat upon what may be reminiscent of a table or a desk, with similarly monotone expressions, repeated within five different pieces.
Not unlike an office desk, the desk in this series is employed to symbolize the idea of the day-to-day which we all take part in. Although the motions repeat themselves and share familiar settings, and attempts to mimic what has been created before, – the result is never the same.
An action, taking place in various contexts will provide entirely independent experiences. A play on imagery with the infamous and cliché idea of a desk job. This personification aims to express this impossibility of exact repetition within time and art. As an artist’s job is still not entirely dissimilar to any other form of work – there exists a routine, expectations, and uninspired moments of plateau. This imagery was employed to explore psychological and emotional spaces within the motion of repetition within daily life.
A somewhat cathartic creative process as a reminder that although we enter into something with the same set of habits, thoughts, rules, methods – it is actually an impossibility to relive a precise experience twice. The process of this series was a therapeutic act, to break the numbing, flat line of illusion, accumulated by the often tedious nature of daily routines.
The Desk II
Natisa Jones
80x40cm
Acrylic on Cotton Canvas
2018
Artist Statement
“The Desk” series, is a body of work which treats various individual figures in a reoccurring position –however, each distinctive and isolated to its own momentum. “The Desk” explores the idea of routine: figures are sat upon what may be reminiscent of a table or a desk, with similarly monotone expressions, repeated within five different pieces.
Not unlike an office desk, the desk in this series is employed to symbolize the idea of the day-to-day which we all take part in. Although the motions repeat themselves and share familiar settings, and attempts to mimic what has been created before, – the result is never the same.
An action, taking place in various contexts will provide entirely independent experiences. A play on imagery with the infamous and cliché idea of a desk job. This personification aims to express this impossibility of exact repetition within time and art. As an artist’s job is still not entirely dissimilar to any other form of work – there exists a routine, expectations, and uninspired moments of plateau. This imagery was employed to explore psychological and emotional spaces within the motion of repetition within daily life.
A somewhat cathartic creative process as a reminder that although we enter into something with the same set of habits, thoughts, rules, methods – it is actually an impossibility to relive a precise experience twice. The process of this series was a therapeutic act, to break the numbing, flat line of illusion, accumulated by the often tedious nature of daily routines.
The Desk III
Natisa Jones
80x40cm
Acrylic on Cotton Canvas
2018
Artist Statement
“The Desk” series, is a body of work which treats various individual figures in a reoccurring position –however, each distinctive and isolated to its own momentum. “The Desk” explores the idea of routine: figures are sat upon what may be reminiscent of a table or a desk, with similarly monotone expressions, repeated within five different pieces.
Not unlike an office desk, the desk in this series is employed to symbolize the idea of the day-to-day which we all take part in. Although the motions repeat themselves and share familiar settings, and attempts to mimic what has been created before, – the result is never the same.
An action, taking place in various contexts will provide entirely independent experiences. A play on imagery with the infamous and cliché idea of a desk job. This personification aims to express this impossibility of exact repetition within time and art. As an artist’s job is still not entirely dissimilar to any other form of work – there exists a routine, expectations, and uninspired moments of plateau. This imagery was employed to explore psychological and emotional spaces within the motion of repetition within daily life.
A somewhat cathartic creative process as a reminder that although we enter into something with the same set of habits, thoughts, rules, methods – it is actually an impossibility to relive a precise experience twice. The process of this series was a therapeutic act, to break the numbing, flat line of illusion, accumulated by the often tedious nature of daily routines.
The Desk IV
Natisa Jones
60x30cm
Acrylic on Cotton Canvas
2018
Artist Statement
“The Desk” series, is a body of work which treats various individual figures in a reoccurring position –however, each distinctive and isolated to its own momentum. “The Desk” explores the idea of routine: figures are sat upon what may be reminiscent of a table or a desk, with similarly monotone expressions, repeated within five different pieces.
Not unlike an office desk, the desk in this series is employed to symbolize the idea of the day-to-day which we all take part in. Although the motions repeat themselves and share familiar settings, and attempts to mimic what has been created before, – the result is never the same.
An action, taking place in various contexts will provide entirely independent experiences. A play on imagery with the infamous and cliché idea of a desk job. This personification aims to express this impossibility of exact repetition within time and art. As an artist’s job is still not entirely dissimilar to any other form of work – there exists a routine, expectations, and uninspired moments of plateau. This imagery was employed to explore psychological and emotional spaces within the motion of repetition within daily life.
A somewhat cathartic creative process as a reminder that although we enter into something with the same set of habits, thoughts, rules, methods – it is actually an impossibility to relive a precise experience twice. The process of this series was a therapeutic act, to break the numbing, flat line of illusion, accumulated by the often tedious nature of daily routines.
The Desk V
Natisa Jones
60x30cm
Acrylic on Cotton Canvas
2018
Artist Statement
“The Desk” series, is a body of work which treats various individual figures in a reoccurring position –however, each distinctive and isolated to its own momentum. “The Desk” explores the idea of routine: figures are sat upon what may be reminiscent of a table or a desk, with similarly monotone expressions, repeated within five different pieces.
Not unlike an office desk, the desk in this series is employed to symbolize the idea of the day-to-day which we all take part in. Although the motions repeat themselves and share familiar settings, and attempts to mimic what has been created before, – the result is never the same.
An action, taking place in various contexts will provide entirely independent experiences. A play on imagery with the infamous and cliché idea of a desk job. This personification aims to express this impossibility of exact repetition within time and art. As an artist’s job is still not entirely dissimilar to any other form of work – there exists a routine, expectations, and uninspired moments of plateau. This imagery was employed to explore psychological and emotional spaces within the motion of repetition within daily life.
A somewhat cathartic creative process as a reminder that although we enter into something with the same set of habits, thoughts, rules, methods – it is actually an impossibility to relive a precise experience twice. The process of this series was a therapeutic act, to break the numbing, flat line of illusion, accumulated by the often tedious nature of daily routines.
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- Ho Mei Kei
- Anchalee Arayapongpanich
- Natisa Jones
- Kittisak Thapkoa
