NEW EXHIBITION

MEMORY’S LANDSCAPE

Works from the Steve Wong Art Collection

“And while memory itself is not a place, it is always situated within one — landscapes.”

Memory, and the act of remembering, is never straightforward. It is both active and passive, straddling the spectrum between the vague and the clear. A memory recollected is born out of negotiations of what we choose to store or omit, reconstructing compositions of truths and half-truths. Yet memory itself is not a place. Landscapes therefore give memory an anchor — a foreground, a background, and everything in between — ranging from scenes of retraced certainty and clarity, to messy and muddled impressions.

GDP Architects and R+, supported by Aēsop, are delighted to present Memory's Landscape: Works from the Steve Wong Art Collection. The curation and layout by @_rplusss, enhanced by an infusion of scents by @aesop, set the spatial and sensorial tone for the space at GDP Campus. Through a selection of 20 artworks by 19 visual artists, the exhibition rekindles the familiar yet interconnected ties between memory and landscape — in others, and of our own.

16 May –
2 August 2026

GDP Campus
No. 79, Jalan Setiabakti, Bukit Damansara,
50490 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Admission fee and visiting slots apply

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PREVIOUS EXHIBITION

NOT JUST IN
BLACK AND WHITE

Works from the Steve Wong Art Collection

Romulo Olazo, Diaphanous B-CXIII, 1994, oil on canvas, 152.5 × 244 cm (Diptych). Photo: Adaptus Design System

It begins as a visual proposition—what and how do we see in black and white? In picture-making, “black-and-white” evokes the bare bones of visual form. Without the comfort and distraction of colour, an image is somehow naked, either especially vulnerable or especially audacious. In our minds we may associate “black and white” with a theory of opposites—positive and negative, substance and absence, darkness and light. We may see these in tension with, or in complement to one another. In the English language, something presented “in black and white” is to be taken as clear, plain, fixed, incontrovertible.

An exhibition in black and white prompts a shift in viewers’ aesthetic register, and invites a special way of looking at and thinking about the artworks it brings together, and how they may relate. The artworks here present many textures of black and white. A few are inflected by a brief intrusion of colour. We see figuration and abstraction, man and nature, boys and girls, order and chaos, anger and joy, creating a set of assumptions and categories to be interrogated. In our increasingly polarised contemporary world, we need artists to help us make those interrogations, through how they navigate and understand their experience of the “now”, recalibrating ways of looking.

23 June –
11 August 2024

GDP Campus
No. 79, Jalan Setiabakti, Bukit Damansara,
50490 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Installation views, Not Just In Black And White at level 4 & 5, GDP Campus, 23 June – 11 August 2024.

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