The Ways of Seeing is CULT Gallery’s annual platform for emerging artists. It is curated as a group show but each artist presents a body of work (as opposed to a single work), to capture a sense of the artists' practice early in their careers. Choosing to curate the show this way invites us to dive into each artist's unique approaches and concepts, while the artworks interact with each other in the show.
This year’s fifth edition of Ways of Seeing features seven artists with diverse methods and media. Artists such as Luqman Ismail, Adam Badruddin Syah and Izhar Yusrin bring together works that are familiar in the fine art realm (painting and printmaking), while Ayue Juman, Chau Xien and Xeem Noor express craft techniques in contemporary art with cross-stitch, rattan weaving, beadwork and embroidery. Neoh Shin Yen conjures text-based works that play poetically with the space through mirrors as her choice of medium. With such a variety of approaches, these artists communicate their place in the world through a visual language they have made their own, early in their careers.
