FRESH PERSPECTIVES

National Gallery Singapore’s “Dalam Southeast Asia” throws the spotlight on the region’s less-explored modern and contemporary artists with a series of four small-format exhibitions that will be rotated on a six-month basis till 2023. Organised with the purpose of sparking discourse over the production, display and writing of art in the region, it features works drawn from the National Collection as well as recent acquisitions and donations. To kick things off is “The Tailors and the Mannequins: Chen Cheng Mei and You Khin”, which explores how the world is viewed and imagined from a Southeast Asian perspective, and will run till 10 April.

From top: You Khin, Untitled(TheTailorsandthe Mannequins) (1981); Untitled(DohaScene:PakistaniBakers) (1990). Chen Cheng Mei, MarketScene,SriLanka (1975); EatingRice (1977)