With its diverse knowledge and experience in Asia and beyond, Future Perfect provides promotion and representation for contemporary artists, as well as research and advice for collectors, institutions, and curators. The gallery works with an international roster of contemporary artists, including Christian Thompson, Pratchaya Phinthong, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Ho Tzu Nyen. Under gallery directors Jasper Knight, Nina Miall and David Teh, Future Perfect is committed to advancing the practices of the most dynamic and innovative contemporary artists working across the range of traditional and non-traditional media.
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Future Perfect is proud to present ‘SEA STATE 3: inversion’, the latest installment of Charles Lim’s celebrated SEA STATE series. The exhibition throws an international spotlight on one of this country’s leading artistic innovators. Far from the wilderness we might imagine there, the artist finds a dynamic and ever-changing environment, constantly reshaped by natural and human forces.
Nathan Coley, Faith, 2011
Nathan Coley, Heaven is a Place Where Nothing Ever Happens, 2010
Nathan Coley, Square of the Three Powers (East),2011
Nathan Coley, 03.03.09(A), 2012
Nathan Coley, Square of the Three Powers (West), 2011
Nathan Coley, Choir, 2012
Future Perfect is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Coley in Southeast Asia. Bringing together photographic and sculptural work from the past five years, the exhibition complements Coley's representation in the current Biennale of Sydney.
'From the People, To the People, For the People' explores the ritualised nature of protest and mourning, particularly with regards to their expression in civic space. More broadly, the exhibition explores how architecture conditions social behaviour, and questions the place of religion and ideology in the public sphere.
With reference to the instruments of ideology (choirs, placards, demonstrations, prayer), Coley interrogates the ways in which civic life becomes freighted with symbolic political or spiritual significance. Through decontextualising and reframing them, he brings a critical awareness to bear on the spaces and places of protest and worship, proposing an alternative understanding of the public sphere.
Nathan Coley (born 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland) is one of Britain's best-known artists, having been nominated for the Turner Prize, the most prestigious award for a UK-based artist under fifty, in 2007. Coley's work is in the collections of many important public institutions such as the Scottish National Gallery and numerous international private collections.
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