Beauty Will Save The World: Eight Artists From Southeast Asia

This March, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present exhibition Beauty Will Save the World: eight artists from Southeast Asia, practitioners from Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Philippines, and Cambodia deploy various media, materials, and conceptual strategies to create pieces that through their uplift transcend bleakness of all kinds, including social tensions at home and beyond. Their works, some grappling critically with dire conditions such as incarceration, war, abuses of power, displacement, and environmental degradation, sparkle with humour and spirit as they mobilise viewers. Others radiate poetic light in more intimate ways, recalling humanity and the natural world. Curated by Southeast Asian art specialist Iola Lenzi, Beauty Will Save the World: eight artists from Southeast Asia assembles iconic artworks by Southeast Asian contemporary masters, as well as newly commissioned pieces impactful for their visual and sensorial seduction operating in tandem with their semantic play.