Shows to See in Late June, 2023
By The Editors
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Installation view of ISABEL and ALFREDO AQUILIZAN’s Here, There and Everywhere (In-habit: Project Another Country), 2018, cardboard and metal installation, 400 × 120 × 500 cm, at "Somewhere, Elsewhere, Nowhere," Museum MACAN, Jakarta, 2023. Courtesy the artists and Museum MACAN.
JUN 24–OCT 8
Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan: “Somewhere, Elsewhere, Nowhere”
Museum MACAN
Jakarta
Artist couple Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan’s practice centers on the formation of identities through urban development, human movement, and journeys, exploring the idea of home and sense of belonging. Their interactive installations and sculptures often incorporate found materials such as cardboard boxes, paper, and plastic bags. The exhibition also includes a newly commissioned work titled Caged (2023), which is a life-size airplane wing consisting of bird cages and recorded bird songs.
Installation view of LOTUS LAURIE KANG’s In Cascades,
2023, Super Joist, steel, hardware, tanned and unfixed film (continually
sensitive), sheet silicone, cast aluminium kelp knots, cast aluminium lotus
root, and spherical magnets, 350 × 696 × 1143 cm, at "In Cascades," Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2023. Courtesy the artist.
JUN 2–JUL 30
Lotus Laurie Kang: “In Cascades”
Chisenhale Gallery
London
Toronto-born artist Lotus Laurie Kang’s first institutional solo exhibition in Europe displays her work across many different mediums, from photographic film installations to tatami mat-based sculptures. Known for her use of lotus root as the motif, latest works on view such as Lotus (2023) and Leak (2023) comprise bronze and aluminum cast lotus roots as well as other Asian vegetables such as shiitake and ginseng. Tiny glass rat pups in Sticky Pup I-IV (2023) are also hidden throughout the exhibition space. Responding to the space of Chisenhale Gallery, “In Cascades” reflects Kang’s exploration of individual memories, identity, and evolution.
Installation view of CHRISTIAN THOMPSON’s Burdi
Burdi (Fire Fire), 2021, sound installation at "Melbourne Now," The Ian
Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2023. Courtesy the artist.
MAR 24–AUG 20
“Melbourne Now”
National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne
A celebration of Melbourne’s homegrown talents, “Melbourne Now” at NGV Australia highlights works and commissions of more than 200 Melburnian artists. Spanning three floors of the Ian Potter Centre, the survey boasts a large collection of works covering signature works from the fields of fashion, jewelry, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, video, virtual reality, performance, photography, printmaking, product design, and publishing. This year’s also marks the 10th anniversary of the exhibition series since its inauguration in 2013, with a range of events organized for audiences of all ages.
Installation view of MICHAEL HO’s River gestures before dawn, 2023, oil on canvas, 220 × 340 cm, at "New
Moroism" at White Cube, Hong Kong, 2023. Copyright the artist. Courtesy the artist and White
Cube, London / Hong Kong / New York / Paris / West Palm Beach.
MAY 31–SEP 9
“New Moroism”
White Cube
Hong Kong
Featuring four emerging Asian and diasporic artists—Michael Ho, Chris Huen Sin Kan, Timothy Lai, and Su Yu-Xin—“New Moroism” showcases art that embraces ambiguity and expands the practice of figuration. The exhibition’s title is derived from the “mōrōtai style” from Japan’s Meiji-era, a style which emphasizes vagueness. The paintings on view tackle questions of identity, relationships, space, memory, and a rapidly changing world. Part of the gallery’s “Inside the White Cube” series, which spotlights artists “at the forefront of global developments in contemporary art who have not previously exhibited with the gallery,” the show is curated by Tingting Zhao and Evonne Jiawei Yuan.
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Detailed installation view of MONA HATOUM’s Measures of Distance, 1988, video and projection, at "Early Works," Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, 2023. Copyright and courtesy the artist.
MAR 29–OCT 22
Mona Hatoum: “Early Works”
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago brings together works from Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum’s early career in the 1980s, produced during her exile from her home, Lebanon, during the Civil War. The show focuses on video works such as Measures of Distance (1988), a meditation on the artist's relationship with her mother and cultural displacement, and the more overtly political Roadworks (1985), which encompasses the viewpoints and struggles of 1980s Brixton. Twenty-five years after her first solo exhibition in the United States, the exhibition reveals the inception of many of Hatoum’s ideas about power, marginalization, and the artist-subject relationship.
