a fold in time (Curated by James Luigi Tana) at ISA Art Gallery

“a fold in time” is a collaboration among contemporary art galleries based in Southeast Asia– MONO8 (Manila), ISA Art Gallery (Jakarta), and Richard Koh Fine Art (Singapore/Bangkok). Moving across the region, the exhibition brings together artists coming from diverse artistic practices to be in a dialogue with one another, and along the intersection of concerns (and contradictions) that the participating artists confront in their works. The idiomatic expression a fold in time, may be understood as an important moment in time, operates within the premise of the show by locating how different and significant moments meet and manifest, this time , through art. An important initiative among three galleries, the exhibition echoes the words of scholar Howard Morphy in relation to mobility of art in Asia. He argues that the “disjunction from and reconnection to the past, and by the mobility of individual artists who cross boundaries yet remain connected and attached to identities and histories whose traces they bear” reflect a complex world. Such complexities, from one art form to another, are inextricably entwined with individual and collective realities when the past, present and future co-exist together.

Learn more here: https://www.isaartanddesign.com/exhibitions/122-a-fold-in-time-at-isa-art-gallery-wisma-bni-46-jakarta/