Titled after a video-essay by artist Korakrit Arunanondchai – one of the most adroit chroniclers of our zeitgeist – this exhibition explores the contemporary condition through the eyes of a younger generation of artists.
Their searching works convey a sense of vague disquiet, distractedness, fleeting intimacies and estrangement: fragments of an age and hyper-digitalised consciousness where signs are often unmoored from their referents; where the speed at which information is written and overwritten results in a collective amnesia.
By turns surreal, tender, and unsettling, these interior worlds attempt to evoke and remember relationships, identity, history and meaning, even as these slip from our grasp.
“Quarter Past” and “Departure” are Loh’s attempt at capturing a certain emotional resonance in pictorial form. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Edward Hopper and Singaporean photographer Nguan – who adroitly captured scenes of urban alienation, solitude and tenderness – Loh’s paintings speak of an introvert’s desire to escape the ‘noise’ and hyper-activity of a fast-paced city like Singapore. The stilled, cinematic quality of these paintings express what the artist describes as “an inevitable longing to be in a different place or time”, while simultaneously suggesting a subtle connection between people, time and space. The blurred, translucent figures of these tableaus evoke a certain ambiguity and surrealism within their settings, suggesting a fleeting collapse of temporalities: they are like ghosts or traces of a prior presence in a particular space and time.
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Paving Paradise reflects the constant upkeep of Singapore’s everchanging urban landscape. The restructuring of our city reflects the restructuring of our policies to mitigate the threats of urbanization, highlighting our dream to transform Singapore into a City in Nature. Our desire to develop harmoniously with the flora and fauna takes shape through our city features such as roads, pathways and bridges which cater for people and animals alike, connecting green spaces within our urban environment.
Haridas Contemporary is excited to announce our representation of emerging Singapore-based Filipino artist John Marie Andrada (b. 2001, Philippines).
Andrada is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, installation, sculpture, photography and video. Growing up and taking root in a once foreign country, she moves between mediums and draws from personal recounts to reflect on the complexities of identity, time and the human experience. Defined by an ongoing investigation of how narrative and visual language can intertwine, her practice blends figuration and abstraction, driven by an intuitive, experimental approach to image-making.
Andrada graduated with a BA in Fine Arts (First Class Honors) from LASALLE College of the Arts in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London in 2023. In 2024, she debuted her first Solo with Haridas Contemporary, Singapore. She was a recipient of The Winston Oh Travelogue Award (2023) and exhibited in DECK’s Undescribed #9 helmed by John Tung and Robert Zhao. Her works have been nominated for International Takifuji Art Award, Japan (2022), featured in Project 3V (Visualize, Voice and Vision) at FassArt Gallery, Istanbul (2021), 9th Dali International Photography Exhibition (DIPE), China (2021), and received the Special Choice Award for the 41st Daegu International Grand Exhibition, Korea (2022).
Works by Jeremy Sharma in The Other Lives on Painting @ ADM Gallery
Catch ‘The Other Lives of Painting’ curated by Michelle Ho
On View Now @ ADM GALLERY till 21 March 2025
Featuring paintings by Jeremy Sharma
And other works by Sookoon Ang, Kiat, Nicholas Ong & Joanne Pang
A continuation of ADM Gallery’s 2019 exhibition ‘Reformations: Painting in Post-2000 Singapore Art’, which explored artists’ engagement with the materiality and methodologies of painting.
“Creating a sense of dislocation that mirrors the way in which we engage with images in an increasingly media-saturated world, Jeremy Sharma’s body of work can be seen as an exercise in merging the domains of film, literature and popular culture, using painting to blur the boundaries between these realms of knowledge. In this series, the artist refrains from privileging one particular interpretation or narrative over another, disrupting traditional modes of storytelling and visual representation. Instead, Sharma’s focus is on the shifting frames or reference that move across the works, each painting acting as a site of transition where contexts and symbolic meanings migrate and transform.” – Michelle Ho
More information about the show on ADM Gallery website: https://admgallery.sg/
Melissa Tan Achieves Artist Record High at Art SG 2025
Straits Times reports sale of Melissa Tan’s monumental triptych The Fates: Klotho, Lachesis & Atropos (2024) to regional private museum for an artist record high.
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Art & Market Editor, Ian Tee (@ianteestudio), reviews Melissa Tan’s current body of work in her latest exhibition at Haridas Contemporary. An insightful piece for anyone who is interested in understanding more about the formal qualities in the works. The piece serves as an excellent complement to independent curator, Tan Siuli’s (@the.itinerant.curator) essay in the exhibition eCatalog.
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Cipher presents a series of works created during the pandemic, when Sharma spent most of his time at home, looking at images of the world outside through his computer screen. The artist collected images from the news and various media sources, and layered and collaged them using Freehand software, where he processed the raw images by subtracting details so that only vague outlines of the forms remain. Sharma’s artistic intervention determines the degree of abstraction of each composite image, and in how he chooses to fill in certain areas with colour to create rhythm and suggest new forms.
The result is a composition that retains vestiges of the original images, coalescing into a new one in our mind’s eye. These works hover tantalisingly between figuration and abstraction: we can half-decipher parts of it, but full legibility eludes us, like a code that must be cracked – a visual cipher.
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A sharp and concise piece for anyone who is looking to catch up with Sharma’s artistic trajectory.
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Congratulations to Melissa Tan on unveiling her new public artwork, The Darkness which Reveals at the new Siglap MRT station, as part of the Land Transport Authority (LTA) Art in Transit programme.
Also, congratulations to the other artists involved in the project including Bani Haykal (Tanjong Rhu Station), Sit Weng San & Tania De Rozario (Katong Park Sta.), Sim Chi Yin (Tanjong Katong Sta.), Ang Sookoon (Marine Parade Sta.), Moses Tan (Marine Terrace Sta.) and Bruce Quek (Bayshore Sta.)
Commuters will be able to enjoy the artworks of all mentioned artists when Stage 4 of TEL officially opens on 23 June.
|About the Artwork|
The origin of ‘Siglap’ may be traced to a 19th century solar eclipse that occurred in tandem with Tok Lasam’s arrival by ship under the cover of darkness. Siglap is derived from the Malay word, ‘Gelap’ which means darkness that conceals.
The Darkness which Reveals references the method in which the terrain of the moon is studied. In space the strength of light can help determine the distance of objects far away. This work utilized mapping data which shows the moon’s uneven surface and shadows. The metal perforations are transmuted from these shadows. Just as the moon reflects sunlight, the reflective metal mirrors this phenomenon, providing an illusion of iridescence.
Darkness is reconsidered, not as concealing, but as revealing information and fragmented stories of Tok Lasam’s arrival by sea.
Image Credit: Artist Melissa Tan with her work, The Darkness Which Reveals, at Siglap station. ST Photo: Kua Chee Siong
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https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/time-after-time-a-first-look-at-new-art-in-transit-installations-at-tel-stage-4-stations