Can you compise a tweet about your exhibition?
Solo exhibition 100 Faces features a bold new style that will invite viewers to re-think paintings, exclusively at Sundaram Tagore Gallery. (Exactly 140 characters!)
What will art goers see at the show?
This new body of work focuses on three series: Faces, Stacks and Portraits, and will attempt to challenge the ways in which viewers approach and perceive paintings. The Portrait series comprises eight paintings of predominantly smooth, white surfaces that have been poked, jabbed and scraped to reveal swaths of opulent colors hidden beneath the surface. There’s also a Stacks series, three chromatic pillars of piled up paintings with their edges exposed. Curious viewers may attempt to see the face of the painting, but only the collector who owns the entire stack will actually get to see it.
How does the new exhibition relate to your past works?
In the past, I mostly experimented with Western-influenced painting techniques, such as building layers upon a surface. I started rethinking my art practice to bring in my experience of Eastern philosophy, which is expressed beautifully in Chinese paintings where the empty spaces are often the focal point or essence.
What’s a typical day in your life?
My early morning routine includes yoga, breathing exercises, morning walks, feeding stray animals and reading books. After that, I have breakfast and get to my studio at around 11. I often work for the entire day in the studio, then head back home for dinner and playtime with my pets before going to bed by 11pm. I don’t watch TV these days.
100 Faces is on through Mar 2 at Sundaram Tagore Gallery.
