Weaving Time and Space
Ari Bayuaji, Adeline Kueh & Chuu Wai
Weaving Time & Space brings together artists who have experienced the feeling of uprooting either because of a chosen migration or a forced exile. By using fabric as a medium and weaving and embroidery as a technique they strive to re-connect with their roots.
- 1 October -
- 5 November, 2023
recently presented at ASIA NOW PARISIAN ART FAIR
About Adeline Kueh
Ari Bayuaji was born in Indonesia in 1975. He graduated as a civil engineer and worked in Indonesia before deciding to move to Canada permanently in 2005. Once in Montreal, he studied Fine Arts at Concordia University from 2005 to 2010 and now divides his time between Montreal and Bali. The artist is known mainly for his art installations that incorporate the use of found and ready-made objects he collects from various parts of the world, thereby exposing himself to the different cultural traditions.
Ari Bayuaji is expert in conveying aspects of daily life within a culture as his works often expose the overlooked artistic value in everyday life expressed through objects and places and their roles within a society. The found or ready-made objects that compose his creative material might be “old”, but he injects his work with emotion influenced by the contemporary issues he seeks to address to create the “content” as his artworks to create something “new”.
Ari Bayuaji has been traveling extensively internationally to participate in numerous artist-in-residency programs while also being included in international group shows in Denmark, Indonesia, Germany and The United States. With a large sculptural installation currently exhibited as part of the permanent collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal and another work acquired by the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, the artist’s work has been exhibited in major solo exhibitions in Singapore, Taipei (Taiwan), Ste-Alvère (France), Dusseldorf (Germany), Rotterdam and The Hague (The Netherlands), and Jogjakarta (Indonesia).
The Waves Under Blue Moon
Woven plastic and cotton threads
178 x 106cm, 2023.
Price: 9950 euros
photo courtesy of the artist and Mizuma Gallery
SOLD
Hot Rocks Diving
Woven plastic threads
Crocheted plastic threads.
195 x 105cm, 2023
Price: 9950 euros
photo courtesy of the artist and Mizuma Gallery
Mont Agung
Woven plastic and cotton threads
90 x 125cm, 2023.
Price: 12,500 euros
photo courtesy of the artist and Mizuma Gallery
About the artworks
The artworks presented at Asia Now are a selection from Weaving the Ocean series, a community art project located in Bali, Indonesia. This projected was initiated in 2020 during the pandemic time by Ari Bayuaji, using plastic threads from plastic ropes found on the shore lines and mangrove on the coasts of Bali.
About Adeline Kueh
Adeline Kueh makes installations and socially-embodied works that reconsider the relationship we have with things and rituals around us. Using drawing as a conceptual tool, Adeline looks to cartographies, craft and oral tradition to map out the historical trajectories across time and space through her use of found objects and new productions. As a co-founder of the Critical Craft Collective (Singapore) and the pan-Borneo/UK Serumpun Collective, the centrality of craft in contemporary practice as well as the politics of care are the core focus in her research practice.
Presently a Senior Lecturer with the MA Fine Arts programme at LASALLE College of the Arts, Adeline has exhibited internationally. She was involved in the Word of Mouth exhibition in Venice Biennale (2019), the Passion Made Possible Culture Shaper Tribe Films (Singapore Tourism Board, 2019) and Hermes Singapore (2016).
Forgetting and Remembering (Green)
Silk thread stitching and screenprint on artist's handkerchiefs
Framed 54.2 x 84 x 3.8 cm
unique, 2023.
Price: 3300 euros
Photo courtesy of the artist and STPI
Gentle Persuasion(I)
Handstitched rosettes on canvas
framed 32.5 x 32.5 cm
unique, 2023.
Price: 1950 euros
Photo courtesy of the artist and STPI
The Sun, the Moon and the Earth
Handstitched Swiss Voile rosettes
152 cm diameter
unique 2023.
Price: 8800 euros
Photo courtesy of the artist
About the artworks
Adeline Kueh’s artworks, from “Forgetting and Remembering“ series, are inspired by the longing for her native place. For Asia Now 2023 she has created a delicate installation composed of rosettes made in Swiss voile, similar to those crafter by her mother during her childhood in Sarawak.
About Chuu Wai
Chuu Wai (born 1992) holds a degree in Art from Mandalay National University of Art and Culture. Her paintings express her interest in the status of women and reflect the different forms that discrimination against women takes according to cultural traditions. Chuu Wai has presented 8 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 30 group exhibitions in Myanmar and abroad, especially in London, Paris, New York, Hong Kong and Canberra. Following the military coup on February 1, 2021, Chuu Wai left Myanmar and lives and works in France. In 2021, Chuu was invited by the Intersections gallery to participate in Luxembourg Art Week, the round table on Human Rights organized by the French Institute of Luxembourg and the exhibition Women in Resistance at the Centre Culturel d’Echanges de Neimënster, Luxembourg.
Monstruous Clarity
Acrylic on Fabric
121 x 91 cm, 2023.
Price: 2200 euros
Photo courtesy of the artist
Weaving a New Life with Pride
Acrylic on Fabric
121 x 91 cm, 2023.
Price: 2500 euros
Photo courtesy of the artist
SOLD
Lightness in My Tongue
Acrylic on Fabric
121 x 91 cm, 2023.
Price: 2200 euros
Photo courtesy of the artist
About the artworks
Chuu Wai's artworks presented at Asia Now are part of the “Exile, Weaving a New Life” series. They mirror Chuu's emotions as an artist in exile trying to stay faithful to her roots while building a new life away from home.