Tabula Rasa: Unveiled is a group show featuring a constellation of the gallery’s female artists including Nell Brookfield, Katarina Caserman, Kristy M Chan, Zoe Marden, Teresa Murta, Xiao Hanqiu, Yuan Yuan, Eva Yi Zhang, Tant Zhong and Dan Zhu.
The exhibition brings the viewers into a realm where the very concept of a “blank slate” evolves into a vast canvas for boundless exploration.
Stemming from thinkers like Aristotle and Plato in the ancient times, “tabula rasa” suggests that the human mind starts as an empty canvas, shaped by experiences.
In our intricate contemporary society, one’s experience is a complex weaving of threads from myriad societal and personal dimensions, enabling “tabula rasa” to take on fresh significance. It is a concept redefined by the fusion of diverse realities.
This exhibition delves into the resonance of this concept today, inviting artists to become navigators of identity and authenticity, threading through the layers of our reality to unveil concealed truths.
Katarina Caserman, Atvismonyhoz, 190 x 155 cm
300,000 Kisses is Luke Edward Hall’s solo exhibition presented by The Breeder.
The show centres on a series of works on queer love in the ancient world, all of which feature in 300,000 Kisses, a book by poet Sean Hewitt and Luke Edward Hall, published by Penguin.
In the book, Hewitt and Hall present a collection of 40 stories, previously suppressed or overlooked: a series of queer tales to complete the canon narrative on love, desire and affection.
Hall’s drawings vividly complement Hewitt’s words, to build a safe yet extroverted space for those stories to be narrated and illustrated through a contemporary lens. The exhibition includes Hall’s original drawings that oscillate between mythic narratives and a deeply personal interior space.
Hall’s works balance a dreamlike, romantic aesthetic with an exploration of psychological terrain as well as broader concerns like the vulnerability and pervasive eroticism of the male body, in an attempt to challenge the dominant heteronormative representations and to unite masculine and feminine elements in harmonious compositions.
This series develops Hall’s exploration of eccentric romance and intimacy, while maintaining his references to Jean Cocteau, John Craxton and the Bloomsbury Group.
Luke Edward Hall IT’S TOUGH BEING A GIGOLO 2023 watercolor on paper 30 x 45 cm. Copyright the artist. Courtesy The Breeder
Jason Haam presents Karma, featuring works by four celebrated Korean painters: Jungwook Kim, Minjung Kim, Mike Lee and Moka Lee.
The four artists in Karma represent different eras of Korean identity, heritage and generational zeitgeists. Born across four decades from the 1960s to 1990s, all four artists are technically accomplished and employ laborious and repetitive layering processes. The artists reflect on the conflicts between identity and fabricated persona, touching upon generational traits and tensions, the boundaries of artistic materials, and a range of stylistic processes.
Jungwook Kim Untitled 2009 162x130cm Korean ink on Korean paper
The exhibitions run from November 3 – 18.
