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Jeremy Sharma, Nullius (detail), 2014

Exhibition
MODE CHANGE by Jeremy Sharma
10 May 2014 - 13 Jun 2014

Michael Janssen Singapore is pleased to present its first solo exhibition with Singaporean artist Jeremy Sharma. Entitled MODE CHANGE, this exhibition will feature two unique bodies of work in dialogue with each other- one, a series of grey paintings and the other, foam works from the artist’s Terra Sensa series.

Having spent the past four years developing and perfecting these works, the artist now presents them alongside each other, in the same space, together for the first time. This exhibition follows the gallery’s successful presentation of a selection of works from Sharma’s Terra Sensa series at the Art Stage Singapore’s Platforms sector earlier on this year.

Born 1977, Jeremy Sharma (b.1977) works primarily as a painter but his body of work encompasses video, photography, drawing and installation. His current practice investigates the notion of art as a reflection of a conscious life that observes it in the age of mechanical, industrial and digital reproduction and interconnectivity, addressing our relationship to modernism and our place in time and space in an increasingly fragmented and artificial reality.

Physical manifestations of the artist’s philosophical musings about time, light, matter, entropy and continuum, these three-dimensional works on view resist definition, straddling the lines between painting, sculpture and object. Despite visibly sharing the artist’s employment of pre-fabrication and sensual use of synthetic and common industrial materials, the dark, flat and reflective surfaces of the grey paintings are a stark contrast to the matte, white and blue undulations of the foam works. The artist’s hand, so central to the construction of the grey paintings is absent in the construction of the foam works which are carved by a machine hooked to a computer.

Shifting between modes of painting, these works, which meet and part at different points, create an interesting tension and reading of abstraction in the present context of Asia and the world, firmly positioning Sharma’s last few years of practice well into the conceptual field.

Michael Janssen Gallery
9 Lock Road, #02-21, Singapore 108937

The first international German gallery to come to Gillman Barracks, Michael Janssen Singapore aims to showcase emerging, mid-career as well as established artists from North America, Europe and Southeast Asia, present ambitious solo and group exhibitions as well as host public programs such as performances, talks and film screenings.

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