Haridas Contemporary Debuts at Art SG 2025
(Futures Sector) Booth FR05
Featuring works of Esmond Loh, Jeremy Sharma & Melissa Tan

Anchoring the booth is Melissa Tan’s new artwork titled, The Fates: Klotho, Lachesis & Atropos. It is the largest artwork from Tan’s iconic metal sculpture series which began in 2018. Spanning almost 3-meters long, the monumental piece represents the pinnacle of the acclaimed series, exemplifying Tan’s artistic and technical ingenuity in her combination of the resin and laser-cut mediums. The piece presents one of the most widely known stories in Greek and Roman mythology – The Fates, and one of Tan’s favourites amongst the sea of stories within the series.

The work explores the notion of womanhood through the lens of mythology. It considers two main aspect of the series as both concept (story) and form (data), and at its intersection, resides its endeavour as a melancholy object of art and resistance. Camouflaged within the laser-cut patterns, are images that Tan referenced from paintings, sculptures and antiquities that interrelate with the characters from her research. In tandem, Tan source for asteroids named after these characters, and are currently orbiting our solar system. The shape and folds in the metal are not, by any means, random. In fact, they correspond to data points on an astrological chart that tracks its trajectory. These asteroids traverse vast distances away from earth, but always return via an elliptical orbit. Time-honored myths, likewise, bear new insights when critically re-examined, and eventually circles back to social consciousness.

Jeremy Sharma’s paintings contribute to the larger discourse of painting’s relationship to photography, especially in the digital and socially networked age. He proposes painting as a discretization of seeing, a response to touch, and remembering acts of collective dreams. His new set of paintings for Art SG revolve around both the theme and product of desire through various subjectivities as represented in media, and through the act of painting itself, and is the first suite of a larger body of work called ‘Eros’.

Esmond Loh’s new body of work for Art SG represents a vibrant confluence of Loh’s artistic evolution, offering a glimpse into his visions of a parallel reality that combines fragments of memory and imagination. Fuelled by curiosity and introspection, Loh continues to conjure figurative scenes charged with tension and ambiguity, with occasional injections of abstract, otherworldly motifs.

Deeply rooted in Loh’s multifaceted experiences and identity, this body of work explores liminal spaces and moments of emotional resonance across a range of fictitious terrains. The paintings express a series of polarities: the scenes are both comforting and unsettling, mundane yet dramatic, real yet imaginary, extraordinary yet wonderfully familiar. Through these contrasts, Loh reveals the tension between the paradises we long for and those we may already inhabit, often unnoticed. The subtleties of his work invites viewers to re-examine the paradises they engage with, whether imagined or found in the everyday.