Artwork Works Gallery has introduced the Singapore debut of “Chaos & Sanctuary”, a bunch exhibition that includes 4 rising feminine painters: Shangyu (Mary) Cai, Xinyu Han, Xi Liu and Qian Zhong. The present explores the delicate thresholds between turbulence and tranquillity, marking the primary time their works will likely be exhibited collectively in Singapore.
Xinyu Han – Portrait (left) and Xinyu Han Torch – oil on linen – 120 x 150cm (proper)
The 4 artists share a standard background, having educated at main artwork establishments in London such because the Royal School of Artwork and the Slade College of Nice Artwork. Their practices are knowledgeable by the mix of Western creative training and Chinese language cultural heritage, making a dialogue between East and West that’s more and more related in as we speak’s world artwork panorama.
Xi Liu – Portrait (left) and Xi Liu The place stars fall like damaged jade – oil on canvas – 51 x 85cm (proper)
Every painter brings a particular strategy to the exhibition’s central theme. Shangyu (Mary) Cai attracts on literature and nature to merge humanity and panorama, whereas Xinyu Han examines alienation in city settings by means of compositions that stability stillness and dysfunction. Qian Zhong interrogates feminine identification and want with daring, psychologically charged imagery and Xi Liu builds works by means of writing and reminiscence, translating them into vibrant, collective experiences. “Portray, for me, is an area of negotiation — a method to query, disrupt and reimagine how girls’s our bodies and identities are framed in up to date tradition. I goal to create work that’s visually compelling but emotionally and psychologically charged,” states Qian Zhong.
Shangyu (Mary) Cai – Portrait (left) and
Shangyu (Mary) Cai One Seem – oil and charcoal on linen – 100 x 190cm (proper)
Exhibited internationally in London, Zurich, Milan, Shanghai and past, Cai, Han, Zhong and Liu symbolize a brand new technology of artists whose views transcend borders. Chaos & Sanctuary marks the primary time their works will likely be offered collectively in Singapore, providing audiences a uncommon glimpse of a rising worldwide cohort.
The exhibition additionally displays a wider transformation within the world artwork world, the place girls — significantly youthful — up to date artists are driving market progress and reshaping the way forward for cultural manufacturing. Inside this panorama, Asian girls artists are among the many most dynamic and influential voices, redefining how narratives of identification, gender and world trade are instructed by means of artwork. As Cassi Younger, world fantastic artwork director at Artwork Works Gallery, notes: “The themes offered in Chaos & Sanctuary are common, transcending cultures and demographics. This present discusses the strain between identification and isolation, power and concord, chaos and sanctuary — however each viewer may have their very own interpretation.”
Qian Zhong (Zoe) – Portrait (proper) and
Qian Zhong – ‘Sanctuary’ & ‘Like She Was By no means There’ Set up Picture (left)
For Artwork Works Gallery, which opened its One Holland Village house in 2023, the exhibition reinforces its technique of championing new views whereas making worldwide artwork accessible to collectors in Singapore. It additionally displays a bigger pattern and the rising affect of ladies artists in driving cultural manufacturing and market progress throughout Asia and past.
Chaos & Sanctuary runs from 9 October to 9 November 2025 at Artwork Works Gallery, One Holland Village.
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