Altmejd, Bourgeois, Emin, Levine, Ruby and Vō in Space
10 January–2 February 2025
Group exhibition at The Factory, New Bahru, Singapore
This third exhibition, extracted from The Pierre Lorinet Collection and held during Singapore Art Week, explores space as a reference to the 8,000 sq. ft. warehouse at the Factory, New Bahru, hosting the venue this year in the heart of the capital city. Artists are constantly recontextualising elements of nature, humanity, or architecture to serve their language, expression, and concepts, allowing us to "connect," "feel," and "engage."
Whether the universe with Ugo Rondinone's starnight, Liz Deschenes' blue sky-like void, Sterling Ruby's thermohaline oceanic circulation, or Kenneth Noland's passage. Planet Earth with Theaster Gates' study of nature, Frank Stella's Moby Dick, Latifah Echakhch's sunset, Tracey Emin's body landscape, Louise Lawler's minimal desert, Sherrie Levine's appropriated horses, Mimosa Echard's psychedelic clouds, Richard Long’s displacement of nature through carefully spaced pieces of driftwood composing his « Spiral », or Thomas Bayrle’s Geisha composed of the very same camera which made her visible.
Material removed with Danh Vo's fragment of the Statue of Liberty, Christo's storefront window, Allan McCollum's empty urns, or Korakrit Arunanondchai’s burnt denim paintings. A prehistoric figure made of limestone by Ugo Rondinone, a white bronze bodybuilder cast from plaster by David Altmejd, a couple of nurturing mothers by Louise Bourgeois, or even a dancer built from a monumental copper hanger by Mark Handforth. The space left between us and the world—other humans, elements of nature, or artworks—defines who we are. Maybe that’s what Ugo Rondinone meant when he said that "The sky and space are the greatest themes of art.