Co-curated with Saatchi Gallery, the Bagri Foundation presents Myths, Dreams and New Realities. The exhibition spotlights 13 emerging artists from across the Asian diaspora, who each reimagine cultural identity through personal mythologies and visionary material practices.
Dreamlike visuals unfurl as the artists investigate the entangled relationship between identity, history, and mythology. Lulu Wang and Sato Sugamoto’s larger-than-life anthropomorphic shapes and tangled wires greet us at one end of the gallery, while Wink King Moe’s cotton candy coloured landscapes and Marcos Kueh’s detailed tapestries draw inventively from the folklore, symbolism and myth of Malaysian culture.
Throughout the exhibition, human and non-human landscapes are revealed through painting and sculpture. Artists reimagine their relationship with land and body, drawing inspiration from craft traditions and ancestral memory. Whether working with natural pigments, found materials or industrial processes, each artist builds a unique reality, some built on myths or dreams whilst others on our own bodies, offering not just new ways of seeing, but exploring new ways of being.
Chelsea Pettitt, Director of the Bagri Foundation and exhibition curator, will conduct two drop-in walkthroughs on the dates below. Pre-booking is not required.
- 12pm, Sunday 26 October with artist Hemaseh Manawi Rad
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12pm, Saturday 29 November with artist Woo Jin Joo and Varshga Premarasa
