Returning to ART SG for its fourth edition, Yeo Workshop is delighted to present a dynamic group presentation by Singaporean and Southeast Asian artists at the main Galleries section, and a Platform showcase by Citra Sasmita, highlighting the gallery’s commitment to rigorous contemporary practices from Southeast Asia and their resonance within global art discourse.
For the main Galleries section, the gallery brings together a constellation of works by Solamalay Namasivayam, Noor Mahnun (Anum), Maryanto, Wei Leng Tay, Luke Heng, and Justin Loke (Vertical Submarine). Through diverse artistic approaches across painting, photography, sculpture, and drawing, the presentation foregrounds material experimentation, memory, and socio-political inquiry. The restrained yet psychologically charged mark-making of the late pioneer artist Solamalay Namasivayam reflects a lifelong dedication to figurative drawing. While Nama aspired towards the likeness of the human body, Noor Mahnun (Anum)’s figurative painting Disc (2025) interlaces references from everyday life, popular culture and literature, animating childhood memories of communal music and dance in a whimsical manner.
Wei Leng Tay’s hand-sanded photographs of archival family slides deconstruct the image and its surface, exploring memory, history, and the materiality of photography. Similarly, Luke Heng investigates time, image residue, and the reinterpretation of found and digital imagery through his spectral-like paintings and Timestamps series. Unarmed Chair by Justin Loke suspends the utility of a familiar object, transforming it into a site of presence and unmaking; and Maryanto’s Gergasi (2025) and monochromatic paintings depict the destructive impact of nickel mining, rendering islands as dystopian, contested landscapes. Together, these artists reveal how form, material, and narrative intersect to explore both personal and collective histories.
Alongside the main booth, Bedtime Story by Citra Sasmita is featured as a Platform showcase, which draws from three of the artist’s major international presentations: the 24th Biennale of Sydney, the Hawai‘i Triennial 2025, and her installation at Frieze New York. This focused presentation highlights key iterations of Sasmita’s practice, underscoring the international trajectory and critical reception of her work.
Bedtime Story reflects Sasmita’s expansive cosmology—one in which ritual, womanhood, and ancestral knowledge move fluidly into contemporary space. Drawing from Balinese visual traditions and feminist reinterpretations of myth, her work weaves together the sacred and the political, reclaiming inherited narratives while reimagining them through a contemporary lens.
