{"id":9674,"date":"2016-06-17T14:54:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T06:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=9674"},"modified":"2020-08-29T16:03:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T08:03:39","slug":"group-show-the-past-is-never-where-you-think-you-left-it-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/group-show-the-past-is-never-where-you-think-you-left-it-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Show &#8211; The Past Is Never Where You Think You Left It &#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-9674'><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_hr  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><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=\"EXHIBITIONS \u2013 CURRENT\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/exhibition-current\/\">CuRRENT<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a class=\"selected\" title=\"EXHIBITIONS \u2013 PAST\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/exhibition-current\/exhibition-past\/\">PAST<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\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-3  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  '><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=\"Group Show \u2013 The Past Is Never Where You Think You Left It \u2013 Works\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/group-show-the-past-is-never-where-you-think-you-left-it-works\/\">works<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a class=\"selected\" title=\"Group Show \u2013 The Past Is Never Where You Think You Left It \u2013 Press Release\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/group-show-the-past-is-never-where-you-think-you-left-it-press-release\/\">press release<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df{\nheight:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div '   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-family: open sans thin; font-size: 25px; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #333333;\">The Past Is Never Where You Think You Left It<br \/>\nA curated group exhibition by Gowri Balasegaran<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; color: #666666; text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Wei-Ling Contemporary is pleased to share with you <em>The Past Is Never Where You Think You Left It<\/em>, a group show curated by Gowri Balasegaran featuring a selection of some of Malaysia&#8217;s most prominent artists namely Anurendra Jegadeva, Chong Kim Chiew, Choy Chun Wei, Gan Sze Hooi, Ivan Lam, K. Azril Ismail, Kim Ng, Minstrel Kuik and Rajinder Singh.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition takes its name from a quote from Ship of Fools, a book by Katherine Porter. It deals with our infatuation with the past.<\/p>\n<p>In a world where the present is never what we hoped it would be and the future leaves little room for optimism, it\u2019s easy to understand why we harken back to the past. We yearn for the good-old days when our lives were simpler and when technology did not rule the world. We even use the past to sell the present and the future \u2013 nowhere more than in fashion or car design.<\/p>\n<p>We claim to cherish the past, and yet, with astonishing speed, relics of yesteryear are being destroyed; old buildings are being gutted, traditional practices are being phased out, and those who refuse to embrace the newfangled are simply left behind. Our quest for the latest fad or technology is never-ending.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition examines our growing predilection for nostalgia and the inter-relationship between the past and the present; how we use the past to define the present, both by rejection and appropriation, and how our perception of the past is altered by the present. Nostalgia is nothing new, but what about the way we use it to embellish our present? And how do we decide that the past is sometimes a model to copy or else a mistake to eradicate? Is the past really as good as we remember it to be, or is it merely shaped by the present?<\/p>\n<p>With this exhibition, participating artists have been invited to present a work from the present in concert with an object from their past. The idea is that the two objects would be in dialogue with one another; there should be some relationship between the two. The object from the past could take any form \u2013 a photo, book, artwork, a piece of furniture, even a piece of music etc. It might represent something that the artist feels or felt nostalgic about, or perhaps something that encapsulates a moment or an era from the past, or something that was formative to the artist.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Past Is Never Where You Think You Left It, Curated by Gowri Balasegaran previews on July 12th and remains up until August 11th 2016. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Wei-Ling Contemporary is located at RT01 Sixth Floor, The Gardens Mall, 59200, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Please call 0322828323\/ 0322601106 or email weiling.shaz@gmail.com for more information.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-9a4b51fdc01b8b13bd201ffe5054f031\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-9a4b51fdc01b8b13bd201ffe5054f031{\nheight:35px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-9a4b51fdc01b8b13bd201ffe5054f031 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  '><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\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tpinwytyli-catalogue2.pdf\">Click to view e-catalogue<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-past-is-never-where-you-think-you-left-it.pdf\">&#8216;The past is never where you think you left it&#8217; by Gowri Balasegaran<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artklitique.blogspot.my\/2016\/07\/the-past-is-never-where-you-think-you.html\">The Past is Never Where You Think You Left It @ Wei-Ling Contemporary by Art KL-itique<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfm.my\/gowri-balasegaran-wei-ling-the-past-is-never-where-you-left-it.html\">The Past Is Never Where You Left It &#8211; BFM<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star2.com\/culture\/arts\/2016\/07\/31\/this-exhibition-takes-in-nostalgia-and-memories\/\">Star2 &#8211; This exhibition takes in nostalgia and memories<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Artist CVs:-<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Anurendra-Jegadeva1.pdf\">Anurendra Jegadeva<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Azril-Ismail.pdf\">Azril Ismail<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Chong-Kim-Chiew.pdf\">Chong Kim Chiew<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Choy-Chun-Wei.pdf\">Choy Chun Wei<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gan-Sze-Hooi.pdf\">Gan Sze Hooi<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Ivan-Lam.pdf\">Ivan Lam<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Kim-Ng.pdf\">Kim Ng<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Minstrel-Kuik.pdf\">Minstrel Kuik<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rajinder-Singh.pdf\">Rajinder Singh<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CuRRENT\u00a0|\u00a0PAST works\u00a0|\u00a0press release The Past Is Never Where You Think You Left It A curated group exhibition by Gowri Balasegaran Wei-Ling Contemporary is pleased to share with you The Past Is Never Where You Think You Left It, a group show curated by Gowri Balasegaran featuring a selection of some of Malaysia's most prominent artists [...]","protected":false},"featured_media":9677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[20],"class_list":["post-9674","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/9674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/9674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16448,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/9674\/revisions\/16448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9674"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=9674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}