Ronald Ventura: RecyclablesVeritas Branding & Marketing Pte Ltd., Singapore, 2012, 52 pp. We are constantly reminded of it. In the newspapers, on TV and the internet. The world is collapsing around our ears, sings Michael Stipe of REM in Out of Time. The signs are all there: global warming, terrible floods, strange weather and diminishing resources. Some species following the way of dodo and becoming zoological footnotes. The only thing missing would be signs in yellow ochre

As Soedarsono himself commented – “I gained value

It rejects the idea of a static presentation and replaces this with a mode of continuous alteration

marks are the indices of various narratives that the artist expresses or allows

Chika Okeke-Agulu

the intricate details on these images suggest great attention to the memory and personhood of these characters

Unframed: 29 x 26 cm

Includes text by Teresita Fernández

photography and video

Characterised by an unusual mix of surreal beauty

he smashes boulders of rocks into an explosive spectrum of rocky debris flying across the studio floor

Proposals for Novel Ways of Being is an initiative spearheaded by National Gallery Singapore and Singapore Art Museum

Ichihara Hiroko