10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present exhibition Beauty Will Save the World: Eight Artists from Southeast Asia, practitioners from Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Philippines, and Cambodia deploy various media, materials, and conceptual strategies to create pieces that through their uplift transcend bleakness of all kinds, including social tensions at home and beyond. Their works, some grappling critically with dire conditions such as incarceration, war, abuses of power, displacement, and environmental degradation, sparkle with humour and spirit as they mobilise viewers. Others radiate poetic light in more intimate ways, recalling humanity and the natural world. Curated by Southeast Asian art specialist Iola Lenzi, Beauty Will Save the World: Eight Artists from Southeast Asia assembles iconic artworks by Southeast Asian contemporary masters, as well as newly commissioned pieces impactful for their visual and sensorial seduction operating in tandem with their semantic play.
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Dinh Q. LêUntitled 10 (From Vietnam to Hollywood Series), 2004Fuji Professional Color Paper and Linen Tape85 x 171 cm售出
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Dinh Q. LêGlitter’s Paradise, 2015video7 minutes and 22 seconds售出
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FX HarsonoThe Light of Spirit, 2025Plastic electric candles, LED bulbs, cast cement, wood200 x 174 x 200 cm
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Moe SattOther side of Revolution (gold), 2018Performance photograph printed on Hahnemühle Photo Matt Fibre 200 g/m²60 x 53 cm
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Moe SattOther Side of Revolution (silver), 2018Performance photograph printed on Hahnemühle Photo Matt Fibre 200 g/m²60 x 71 cm
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Moe SattRevealing the layers of, 2025A set of 4
Performance photograph printed on Hahnemühle Photo Matt Fibre 200 g/m²
76.2 x 60.9 cm / 30 x 24 in
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Bui Cong KhanhPorcelain Medals, 2018Porcelain, hand-painted280 Pieces, size variable
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Bui Cong KhanhNorthern Chair, 2018Hand-carved Jackfruit Wood98 x 44 x 44 cm
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Bui Cong KhanhSouthern Chair, 2018Hand-carved Jackfruit Wood98 x 44 x 44 cm
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Bui Cong KhanhThe Wound Has Not Healed, 2018Hand-carved Jackfruit Wood78.5 x 104 x 67.5 cm
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Bui Cong KhanhNorthern Heritage, 2018Hand-carved Jackfruit WoodOriginal Sizes Available:
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Bui Cong KhanhFour Mythological Creatures, 2018porcelain, hand-painted182 x 50 cm
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Htein LinA Show of Hands, 2013-presentSurgical plaster and multimedia installationSize variable
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Htein LinA Show of Hands, 2017Video
32 minutes and 25 seconds
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Htein LinThe Wheel And His Shadow, 2017Teak and padauk wood82 x 124 cm
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CHAN DanyPkaa Phni Vois 2 (Kbach Series), 2014Pencil shavings and glue on wooden board200 x 100 cm
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CHAN DanyPkaa Phni Tes (Kbach Series), 2014Pencil shavings and glue on wooden board200 x 100 cm
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Josephine TuralbaMahal, 2014276 pcs. empty shotgun and .45 caliber brass bullet shells, copper16 x 7 x 6 cm售出
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Josephine TuralbaDaong, 201376 pcs. empty shotgun shells, copper, leather27 x 9 x 7 cm售出
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Josephine TuralbaPakipot, 2013492 pcs. empty shotgun and .22 caliber brass bullet shells, copper24 x 10 x 6 cm保留
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Josephine TuralbaMarikit1, 201348 pcs. empty shotgun shells, copper, leather15 x 11 x 6 cm售出
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Josephine TuralbaMakabayan, 2014356 pcs. empty shotgun, 270, 243 and 9mm caliber brass bullet shells33 x 22 x 11 cm
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Josephine TuralbaMarikina, 2013262 pcs. empty shotgun shells, copper24 x 13 x 7 cm
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Josephine TuralbaNalin, 2013250 pcs. empty shotgun and 9mm caliber brass bullet shells, copper24 x 12 x 6 cm售出
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Josephine TuralbaTyphon, 20251000 spent bullets of calibers 45, 49, 38, 9mm, 22, 5.56, 308,shotgun shells, leather124.46 x 123.19 cm售出
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Josephine TuralbaSea.mless Gambit, 20251000 spent bullets of calibers 45, 49, 38, 9mm, 22, 5.56, 308,shotgun shells, leather132 x 204.5 cm
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Josephine TuralbaSurface Tension, 20251000 spent bullets of calibers 45, 49, 38, 9mm, 22, 5.56, 308,shotgun shells, leather112 x 94 cm售出
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Vu Dan TanFashion #43, 2002Recycled cardboard and hand-printed with Vũ Dân Tân woodblock portraits, chinese inkOriginal Sizes Available:
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Vu Dan TanFashion # 40, 2009recycled cardboardOriginal Sizes Available:
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Vu Dan TanFashion #42, 2009recycled cardboardOriginal Sizes Available:售出
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Vu Dan TanMoney series/ Hong Kong Dollars – Charlie Chaplin subset, 1997Monoprint, ink on paper or newsprint & photocopy; cut-out by hand and hand-colored with ink, acrylic, correction pen10 x 20.5 cm (14 pieces); 11 x 28.5 cm (one piece)
ABOUT THE CURATOR
iola Lenzi, PhD, is a Singapore curator and historian of Southeast Asian contemporary art. She is a specialist of Vu Dan Tan, has published extensively on early contemporary art in 1990s Hanoi, and researches connections between Southeast Asian contemporary art and regional social-political evolutions. She teaches Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art history, as well as curatorial methods in the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her most recent book is Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970 (Lund Humphries UK, 2024).
iola Lenzi, PhD, is a Singapore curator and historian of Southeast Asian contemporary art. She is a specialist of Vu Dan Tan, has published extensively on early contemporary art in 1990s Hanoi, and researches connections between Southeast Asian contemporary art and regional social-political evolutions. She teaches Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art history, as well as curatorial methods in the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her most recent book is Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970 (Lund Humphries UK, 2024).
