The Back Room at ART SG 2024
The Back Room is proud to announce its first-time participation in a regional art fair at the second edition of ART SG 2024. Located in the FUTURES section at Level 1 of Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre, the main section of the booth presents works by Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín (GT), Marcos Kueh (MY/NT), and Red Hong Yi (MY), all of whom will be showing large, textile-based works broadly revolving around themes of identity and independence. The booth is anchored by a fluorescent, multi-work woven installation by Marcos Kueh that touches on themes of the postcolonial subject, flanked by textile works by Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín inspired by his indigenous identity, and a new piece by Red Hong Yi on motherhood.
A separate viewing experience is the “back room”, a specially-built corridor at the back of the booth that features a mixed hang of works by Hoo Fan Chon, Liew Kwai Fei, Minstrel Kuik, Ong Hieng Fuong, and W. Rajaie, all of whom represent some of the most promising contemporary artists working in Malaysia today.
In addition, we are working with Marcos Kueh and Galerie Ron Mandos to present “Woven Billboards: Nenek Moyang” by Marcos Kueh, a public art installation from his Kenyalang Circus series for ART SG PLATFORM.
ART SG 2024 Fair dates: 18 January 2024 (VIP Preview & Vernissage), 19 – 21 January 2024 (Public viewing)
Installation shots
Photos courtesy of Esmond Sit
Marcos Kueh, “Woven Billboards: Nenek Moyang” public installation
Photos courtesy of Allen Tan
VIP Preview Day and Vernissage (18 January 2024)
Photos courtesy of Esmond Sit
At the Fair
A group exhibition featuring artists on view at The Back Room booth at ART SG 2024
A mixed-hang group exhibition presenting five of the artists exhibiting at our booth at ART SG 2024, namely Hoo Fan Chon, Liew Kwai Fei, Minstrel Kuik, Ong Hieng Fuong, and W. Rajaie.
On view are new paintings by Liew Kwai Fei from his “Gesture. Abstraction. Painting” series (2019—ongoing) and W. Rajaie, along with new prints by Ong Hieng Fuong made during his ongoing studies at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Minstrel Kuik will be showing her three-part graphite drawing “Durian Queen and Her Reign” from 2022 and Hoo Fan Chon will be showing selections from the Finnish Landscape Painting series, initiated during his residency in Finland in 2022.
Exhibition dates: 6 January – 4 February 2024
Installation shots
