{"id":14215,"date":"2020-09-29T12:35:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T04:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=14215"},"modified":"2021-03-06T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T08:02:57","slug":"wlg-incubator-young-artists-show-anas-afandi-tang-tze-lye-7-october-8-november-2020-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/wlg-incubator-young-artists-show-anas-afandi-tang-tze-lye-7-october-8-november-2020-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"WLG Incubator Young Artists Show:  Anas Afandi &#038; Tang Tze Lye | 7 October &#8211; 15 November 2020 &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-av_section-142ff43b7600746a6e970fde5cf91c57 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-14215'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"WLG Incubator Young Artists Show:  Anas Afandi \u2013 Tang Tze Lye | 7 October \u2013 8 November 2020  \u2013 Works\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/wlg-incubator-young-artists-show-anas-afandi-tang-tze-lye-7-october-8-november-2020-works\/\">WORKS<\/a>\u00a0|<a title=\"WLG Incubator Young Artists Show:  Anas Afandi \u2013 Tang Tze Lye | 7 October \u2013 8 November 2020 \u2013 Press Release\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/wlg-incubator-young-artists-show-anas-afandi-tang-tze-lye-7-october-8-november-2020-press-release\/\">\u00a0PRESS RELEASE<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/WLG-Incubator-catalogue.pdf\">E-BOOKLET<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div column-top-margin'   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'open sans thin'; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 25px; letter-spacing: 1px;\">WLG Incubator Young Artists Show:<br \/>\nAnas Afandi\u00a0&amp; Tang Tze Lye<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>Young Artists Collaborative Mentorship Program <\/strong>is a unique program that provides the opportunity for emerging artists to be advised and guided by an established artist. \u00a0Earlier in 2020, thorough research was conducted to identify the next generation of young progressive artists from Malaysia, whereupon the identified group of artists were invited to submit their portfolios for consideration and selection. The 5 shortlisted candidates were then involved in a two-tier interview process whereupon two artists were finally selected for participation. Over a six-month program, the two artists, Anas Afandi and Tang Tze Lye, worked with Malaysian artist Ivan Lam as their mentor to discuss, research, explore, experiment, and develop new concepts. This platform aims to provide a safe space for these artists to express the challenges they face in their professional and artistic practices, as well as to support them in the aspects that they choose to develop further. The results are presented through the\u00a0<em>WLG Incubator Young Artists Show<\/em>\u00a0at Wei-Ling Contemporary, which serves as a channel to introduce their work of art to a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>WLG Incubator<\/strong> is an initiative by Wei-Ling Galleries that was launched as a platform to highlight and collaborate on projects with emerging Malaysian artists. It is dedicated to help artists create a sustainable art practice, which allows them to develop their confidence towards making art that is authentic, experimental and progressive. Through this Incubator, we hope to discover and nurture artists and projects, which are critical towards shaping the voice of the next generation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Anas\u00a0Afandi<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Tapak\u00a0Pembakaran\u00a0<\/em>(\u201cwaste-burining\u00a0site\u201d) 2020 examines the feeling of longingness, through a recollection of past experiences, memories, and emotions of one\u2019s family history. At the same time, it also acts as his \u201critual of detachment\u201d; a meditative tool to disengage himself from the past, in order to progress. The artist adopts the role of an archaeologist, botanist and naturalist in his approach, as he conducted an excavation of a small area of land near his family home in Taping, Malaysia, that has been used to burn household waste since the 1970s. The site remains as it is, with fragments of the past buried beneath.\u00a0This work is an in-depth extension of his earlier work <em>Dokumen Seorang Imigran <\/em>(\u201cDocument of an immigrant\u201d) (2018), the artist\u2019s attempt at finding alternative ways to approach art as part of life, instead of looking at it as a separate entity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The specimens collected from the site, allow both himself and viewers to find clues to different meanings.\u00a0From\u00a0mundane objects such as broken vases, rustic nails, metal hinges, lockset, wood planks, and a set of broken pestle and mortar that had been thrown away by his grandmother \u2013 to fossils of snails, shells, pieces of remote lizard\u2019s hatched eggs. These artefacts are displayed in the gallery space on a bed of soil, imitating the environment from which they were collected. The logic of the arrangement based on material forms is inspired by the ancient concept of Scala Naturae, of which all matters are categorised following a hierarchal structure. This installation invites viewers to squat and investigate the objects the way the artist did, so as to spark curiosity and imagination amongst viewers. Three sets of drawings\u00a0accompany this installation, blurring the line between scientific and artistic\u00a0studies.\u00a0As the artist explained, this project is an ongoing process to seek the relevance of art in contemporary living, through the examination of history, experience, environment and knowledge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tang\u00a0Tze\u00a0Lye<\/strong>\u2019s interdisciplinary practice focuses on the body as a vehicle to narrate stories surrounding gender, queer identities, and beauty. The bodies in his paintings represent his personal, perpetual struggle of trying to understand his true identity, expressed through a combination of bright colours, as well as the tonality of blue and chromatic pink, to represent something gendered in nature. Touching the subject of queer, his work challenges our belief of what the body of the \u2018normal\u2019 and the \u2018abnormal\u2019 should be. His bold provocative paintings also shed light on the idea of loving one\u2019s own body, while bringing up the issue of \u2018body-shaming\u2019, a form of bullying that exists yet is often disregarded in our society. The figures in his paintings are painted from the point of view and style of queer art, emphasizing intimacy and fantasy, and suggesting the normalisation of taboos surrounding the body and gender.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Next to the paintings is an installation work, in which Tang\u00a0Tze\u00a0Lye highlights hair as a symbol of beauty. Suffering from Alopecia encouraged the artist to develop his own natural remedy, and look further into the historical and cultural aspects of hair-care. This potion, along with other objects such as a pair of shoes made out of hair, and a head piece, are also part of the installation. In his research and exploration on queer art, the artist also pushes his own boundaries as a visual artist, as he delves into performance art \u2013 writing, costume-designing, and staging his own piece, as a way to initiate a conversation with the audience. The ideas behind his paintings are once again evoked here, through a combination of narration, poetry, and dance. As the artist mentioned, his multiple approach in art-making leans on a quote by Confucius:\u00a0<em>\u201cI hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand\u201d.\u00a0<\/em>In order to fully understand something, one must go beyond visualising it; one must also be it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018WLG Incubator Young Artists Show\u2019<\/em> is featured at Wei-Ling Contemporary from 7<sup>th<\/sup> October \u2013 15<sup>th<\/sup> November 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wei-Ling\u00a0Contemporary\u00a0is\u00a0located\u00a0at\u00a0RT01, Sixth\u00a0Floor,\u00a0The\u00a0Gardens\u00a0Mall,\u00a059200,\u00a0Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.\u00a0Admission\u00a0hours\u00a0are\u00a0Tuesday &#8211; Sunday 11am-7pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exhibition is open by appointment only. For appointments and further assistance, please contact\u00a0+60322828323 or\u00a0email: <a href=\"mailto:weilinggallery.amanda@gmail.com\">weilinggallery.amanda@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WORKS\u00a0|\u00a0PRESS RELEASE\u00a0| E-BOOKLET WLG Incubator Young Artists Show: Anas Afandi\u00a0&amp; Tang Tze Lye The Young Artists Collaborative Mentorship Program is a unique program that provides the opportunity for emerging artists to be advised and guided by an established artist. \u00a0Earlier in 2020, thorough research was conducted to identify the next generation of young progressive artists [...]","protected":false},"featured_media":14230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[18],"class_list":["post-14215","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/14215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/14215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14224,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/14215\/revisions\/14224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14215"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=14215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}