Overview
Flowers Gallery is delighted to participate at ART SG 2023, with a presentation of our programme. Featured artists include Victoria Cantons, Movana Chen, Joyce Ho, Wu Jiaru, Tomona Matsukawa, Jakkai Siributr and Aida Tomescu amongst others.
Presenting over 150 of the world’s leading galleries, many of whom will be making their Singapore debut, ART SG is the biggest art fair launch in Asia Pacific in a decade. Taking place across two floors at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, ART SG is accompanied by a line-up of groundbreaking art installations, engaging panel discussions and experimental film.
WU JIARU
Wu Jiaru grew up in a typical Guangdong city in southern China which was shaped by the entertainment, aesthetic and lifestyle influences entering the mainland through Hong Kong in the 1990s. Jiaru's paintings draw on her own childhood memories while also reflecting the shared fragmented memory of millennials in Southern China.
TOMONA MATSUKAWA
Matsukawa’s photorealistic paintings originate from interviews with women of her generation exploring the complexity of intergenerational relationships. "My work reveals the stories or the problems that these women carry on in life.Through capturing the subtle and fragmented gestures, I am trying to present a bigger picture of society through individual conditions. " - Tomona Matsukawa
VICTORIA CANTONS
Cantons presents a record of trauma and healing, alongside a rigorous inquiry into the social constraints surrounding gender politics. Deeply informed by her own experience of limitation and stigma, her work reverberates with notions of freedom, selfhood, representation, power and aspects of the human condition which she writes, despite our divergent identities and experiences, "connect us all."
MOVANA CHEN
Chen's multidisciplinary practice is rooted in the exploration of communication across cultures, often shredding and repurposing dictionaries, maps and books from different languages to create sculptural installations and wearable works that represent new forms of language.
JOYCE HO
"Whether through the influence of social structures or feedback from life experience, whenever I suddenly become aware of something in my life - an object, an action, or something on the verge of disappearing - and I fix my gaze on it, then I've made an instinctive start on my creative work. As I enter this process, the ambient sounds and the flow of people around me gradually slow down and blur, and I enter a state of intense attention." - Joyce Ho
AIDA TOMESCU
"In Tomescu’s mature paintings the sheer physicality of paint, its density and the archaeology of the layers, its application and movement across the surface, is inseparable from the content. The tenor of the work is guided by its colouration and by its internal rhythms, like the variations and tonalities in music." - Deborah Hart, senior curator at the National Gallery of Australia
Aida Tomescu The open wounds of white clouds, 2019
Oil on Belgian linen
200 x 306 cm, 78 3/4 x 120 1/2 in