ArtReview Asia Winter 2025
ArtReview Asia Winter 2025
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The Winter issue of ArtReview Asia looks to artists who engage with the past in order to figure out how we got to the present – and how the present is continually reshaped by the decisions we make based on lessons from the past. Tyler Coburn traces how three Japanese artists revisit early encounters between Japan and foreign powers to expose enduring imperialist narratives, racial hierarchies and cultural translations that continue to shape Japan's society today; Illaria Maria Sala considers how Singapore has employed botanical diplomacy and made orchids a tool of foreign policy; Connie Zheng's map-based works are examined, by Max Crosbie-Jones as speculative, research-driven tools that challenge received narratives of migration, labour and environmental history; Lai Fei explores Peng Zuqiang’s moving-image practice, which presents as a delicate negotiation between language, memory and emotion, and probes what resists articulation within China’s fraught political and affective landscape; and The Vishnudharmottara, presented in Stella Kramrisch’s translation with annotations by Mark Rappolt, reconsiders one of the earliest textual systems for understanding image-making. Plus opinions, reviews and more.
What's inside the issue?
What's inside the issue?
Art Previewed
The Interview Hu Anyan by Lai Fei
Rebuilding a City by Elias Tamer
Zealots ad Sellouts by Adeline Chia
Art Featured
Who is Japanese by Tyler Coburn
Duan Jianyu by Yuwen Jiang
Connie Zheng by Max Crosbie-Jones
Peng Zuqiang by Lai Fei
Orchid Politics by Ilaria Maria Sala
Art Reviewed
Exhibitions & Books
Ghost 2568: Wish We Were Here, by Max Crosbie-Jones
Young In Hong, by Andrew Cummings
Zheng Bo, by Mira Dayal
Charwei Tsai, by Travis Jeppesen
Aichi Triennale 2025, by Mark Rappolt
Samson Young, by Adeline Chia
Yuko Mohri, by Mark Rappolt
Lai Yu Tong, by Adeline Chia
Taring Padi, by Ana Vukadin
Threads of Kinship, by Clara Young
Sigg Prize 2025, by Aaina Bhargava
Bagus Pandega, by Jenny Wu
Bae Yoon Hwan, by Mark Rappolt
13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, by Mark Rappolt
The Wax Child, by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken, reviewed by Anandi Mishra
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, by Cory Doctorow, reviewed by J.J. Charlesworth
In the Mirror: New and Selected Poems of Wong Phui Nam, edited by Brandon K. Liew and Daryl Lim Wei Jie, reviewed by Max Crosbie-Jones
The Solitary Gourmet, by Jiro Taniguchi & Masayuki Kusumi, reviewed by Nirmala Devi
Tamas, by Bhisham Sahni, translated by Daisy Rockwell, reviewed by Mark Rappolt
Reel Politik, by Nathan Gelgud, reviewed by David Terrien
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