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Vogue Singapore
07-05-2025
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- Vogue Singapore
The Luminary Artist Charmaine Poh
Working at the intersection of performance, moving image and installation, Charmaine Poh's evocative artistic practice unravels questions related to memory, care and embodiment. Her works have been presented at the Singapore Art Museum, Seoul Museum of Art, REDCAT in Los Angeles, and the 60th Venice Biennale. Based in Berlin and Singapore, she is the co-founder of independent online publication Jom and is also a member of the Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research. Named Deutsche Bank's Artist of the Year for 2025, she continues to gain international recognition for her nuanced, interdisciplinary practice and powerfully feminist diasporic lens. What drives you as a creative? With every work I make and every encounter I have, I hope something shifts. What, exactly, is less discernible, but broadly a sense of closeness and intimacy with oneself. What is the one achievement to date you are proudest of and why? Someone once messaged me about my photographs. Their brother, who was gay, had a tragic death and a troubled life. They said my photographs made them see their brother's face a little clearer. I remember reading the message when I woke up, and then immediately bursting into tears. I have received more responses like this since, but this was one of the first and it has stayed with me. How have you overcome the most significant challenges you have encountered in your journey? One of the most important things one can do is to let go of one's ego. Sometimes, there is no need to justify, beg, compensate, defend or be validated. Knowing when and when not to respond has given me a lot of peace. Why is pushing the boundaries of film, photography and performance important when it comes to cultural storytelling? In the same way that our worlds were constructed, they can also fall apart. We know this about any world order. Having different ways in which things can come together and disperse can help us think of more prevalent affinities. Sitting in ambiguity gives us more empathy. Looking forward, what is one change you want to see in the art industry and what can we do to get there? A practice that I've come across in Europe has been to have a fee calculator for freelance artists and arts workers, which can be applied across forms of labour, from exhibitions to grant applications. Some examples are Kreativ Kultur Berlin's resource centre, and Kunstenaars Honorarium's artist fee guideline. I would like to see this in Singapore.
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
REDCAT and ICA LA Present Will Rawls' New Dance Performance, ‘[siccer]'
REDCAT and ICA LA present Will Rawls' '[siccer],' debuts its exclusive retail experience, Monos launches its new Aluminum Travel Collection with Adrien Brody and Clarins celebrates 'Beauty Icons' at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) and Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) will present multidisciplinary artist Will Rawls' most recent project, '[siccer],' from April 10–12 at at ICA LA in conjunction with the exhibition 'Will Rawls: [siccer]' from April 5–24. Adopting techniques and technologies used in film and theater, '[siccer]' challenges divisions between the living, the rehearsed and the performed. Produced with stop-motion animation, the artwork features an all-Black cast of performers, including Holland Andrews, Keyon Gaskin, Jess Pretty, Katrina Reid and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste. In '[siccer],' Rawls considers the ways in which Black bodies are relentlessly documented, distorted and circulated in the media. This dance performance, presented together with the artist's exhibition, experiments with stop-motion, a filmmaking technique in which still photographs are strung together to produce a moving image. The project's title is inspired by the Latin adverb sic, often used within brackets to indicate incorrect spelling within a citation. Through this titular reference, '[siccer]' illuminates the ways in which Black subjectivity resists standard Western forms of 'correction,' suggesting instead a way of being that is both iterative and endlessly becoming. Exploring the limits and possibilities of gesture and language, Rawls — together with the performers — speculates on collective strategies of narrating the world, uncorrected. Will Rawls is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses choreography, video, sculpture, works on paper and installation. His work probes the boundaries between dance, language and other media to investigate the poetics of abstraction, Blackness and the materiality of time. His work has been presented at the MCA Chicago; The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas; On the Boards in Seattle; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Oregon; the 35a Bienal de São Paulo in Brazil and Counterpublic 2023 in St. Louis, Missouri, among others. Rawls has been awarded numerous residencies and fellowships, including a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, and he received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in 2021. His writing has been published by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art in New York; Museu de Arte de São Paulo and the journal Dancing While Black. He is currently an associate professor of choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles. the curated marketplace for design, fashion and art, debuted its exclusive retail experience, at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles on Saturday. Blending the accessibility of a department store with the curation of an art and design fair, showcases archival and contemporary works from leading artists, designers, galleries and brands in an immersive indoor-outdoor setting, featuring everything from large-scale installations to collectible design objects. Notable highlights include exclusive works by Jean Prouvé, Ettore Sottsass and David Kelley, Max Lamb, Pierre Paulin, Sabine Marcelis, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Willo Perron, Keiko Moriuchi and Stickymonger. Founded by Jesse Lee in 2018 as a seller-focused social commerce platform, acquired collectible design fair Design Miami in 2023, marking a move into collectible design. Coinciding with launch, is transitioning from a publicly available marketplace to a membership-based platform. From May onwards, members will receive a wide range of exclusive benefits and personalized services, including preview access to coveted drops, VIP entry to all global Design Miami events and activations, private art buying and selling opportunities and more. North American-based travel and lifestyle brand Monos has launched its first-ever Aluminum Collection. Tailored for the globetrotter who demands both durability and elegance, the new aluminum hard shell luggage assortment offers a perfect balance of style, practicality and prestige for the refined traveler. To celebrate the launch of the Aluminum Collection, Monos embarked to the vibrant city of Tangier, Morocco, to capture its first celebrity campaign starring Academy award-winning actor Adrien Brody. In the campaign, Brody roams the Moroccan landscape with Monos' Aluminum Collection by his side. Captured by Mexico City-based filmmaker and photographer Alexis Gomez, the narrative explores themes of solitude and connection, revealing how the unknown unfolds when we surrender to the journey itself. The Aluminum Collection celebrates Monos' unwavering commitment to exceptional craftsmanship and attention to detail. Each piece is crafted from premium aluminum, available in four styles including Carry-On Plus ($665), Check-In Medium ($725), Check-In Large ($755) and a Trunk ($775), all featured in three elevated colorways: Caviar Black, Champagne Gold and Aspen Silver. Durable and resilient, the anodized aluminum shell boasts a brushed finish, and each luggage piece is reinforced with riveted aluminum corner guards, TSA-accepted combination latch locks, a telescopic trolley handle, soft release side handle, ergonomic bottom grab handle and whisper-quiet 360-degree spinning wheels. The interior features a quilted taffeta lining in solid black, embossed with the brand's iconic dot pattern and a compression layer to keep everything secure and in its place. The new Aluminum Collection is available now exclusively on Jasmin Larian Hekmat, founder and creative director of the lifestyle brand Cult Gaia, hosted an intimate dinner earlier this month at her home in Beverly Hills to celebrate Nowruz 2025: the Persian New Year. The glamorous Wednesday night guest list, dressed in the brand's spring collection, included Jhené Aiko, Rachel Zoe, Liv Perez, Nicolas and Roxy Bijan, Chelsea Neman Nassib, Nasim Pedrad, Tania Fares, Elaine Welteroth and Morgan Stewart McGraw. Inspired by her Persian heritage, the evening centered around the timeless traditions of the Haft-Sin table symbolizing prosperity and fresh beginnings. The multi-course feast included caviar in custom Cult Gaia tins, Ghormeh Sabzi, saffron rice and kebabs followed by pastries and mint tea. The March 19 event took place inside a Japanese-style tea house set on a carp-filled, lake-size lagoon on the compound which was reportedly once owned by Elvis Presley. Founded in Los Angeles by Hekmat in 2012, Cult Gaia collaborated with Gap last year on a 35-piece holiday collection and expanded into beauty with its first fragrance launch. French beauty brand Clarins celebrated earlier this month 'Beauty Icons' on the Dolby Family Terrace at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which was lit up in the brand's signature red hue. The glamor-packed guest list included Chet Hanks, Maude Apatow, Alessandra Ambrosio, Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Dylan Efron, Lukas Gage, Nara and Lucky Blue Smith, Jodie Turner-Smith, Elsa Hosk, Brooks Nader, Jesse Metcalfe, Patrick Ta, Karrueche Tran, Paris and Dylan Brosnan, Shanina Shaik and Stassi Schroeder, among others. The March 21 event was a celebration of Clarins' 'Beauty Icons,' a collection of the brand's most iconic (and bestselling) products, including its Double Serum, Lip Comfort Oils and Total Eye Lift Cream. The Friday night fête featured bites from Jean-Georges, music by DJ Tay James and a surprise performance by Gwen Stefani. Celebrating 70 years, Clarins was founded by Jacques Courtin-Clarins in 1954 in a Parisian beauty institute. Family-owned and distributed in over 150 countries, Clarins offers skincare innovations for face, body, men and makeup. With expertise in phytochemistry, Clarins Laboratories are pioneers in plant science and technology, grounded in respect for nature and consumers. Have a news story for our readers? Please email Interested in partnership opportunities? Please email The post REDCAT and ICA LA Present Will Rawls' New Dance Performance, '[siccer]' appeared first on TheWrap.
