Four figure drawings by Solamalay Namasivayam are included in ArtScience Museum Singapore’s forthcoming exhibition, Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy, on view from 21 March to 16 August 2026. Developed in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute, the exhibition explores how artists and systems of knowledge across cultures have studied, measured, and imagined the human body. In its Singapore iteration, this dialogue is extended through contemporary artworks and Asian and regional perspectives, tracing the body from anatomical inquiry to lived, cultural, and spiritual understandings.
Selected for the opening galleries, which focus on drawing the body and the role of observational study in shaping anatomical knowledge, Namasivayam’s works bring a distinctive regional voice to the start of the exhibition narrative. Their sensitivity to line, proportion, and embodied presence offers a compelling point of entry into the exhibition’s wider exploration of the body across time and culture.