ArtReview Asia Magazine - Summer 2021

In this issue

Summer is here and lockdown easing has begun, but in many parts of the world, the pandemic continues to reveal geographic and social inequalities and differences. Addressed in this issue: in the face of widespread anti-Asian prejudice in the West, ArtReview Asia turns to the work of filmmaker Richard Fung, and artists Hamishi Farah and Arahmaiani to discover how these artists have responded to its different incarnations, each in their own way; Kurdish activist, artist and journalist Zehra Doğan, who in 2017 was jailed for almost three years, during which time she produced artworks that were smuggled out disguised as dirty laundry; Shahzia Sikander and Julie Mehretu are queering and recasting conventional notions of art; and Ayman Zedani, whose multidisciplinary work takes on the task of reimagining the Gulf as a site of natural collaboration rather than natural extraction. Plus exhibition and book reviews.

ArtReview Asia Magazine Description:

Launched in May 2013 and published quarterly, ArtReview Asia brings the values
of ArtReview to the artistic production of the world’s largest and most diverse
continent.

With its headquarters in Shanghai, and associate editors and contributors
spread across the continent, ArtReview Asia covers art from both the West and
the East, and a few places in between, and targets readerships based in Asia and
those with an interest in Asia’s art scenes worldwide. ArtReview Asia’s writers
include some of the leading critics and fiction writers in the region, among
them awardwinning Thai writer Prabda Yoon and leading Tamil writer Charu
Nivedita. Reviews have an emphasis on shows in Asia or by artists from Asia,
and the majority of ARA’s writers and critics are based in the territories they
cover. As Asia’s art scenes evolve and develop to include some of the most
commercially successful and internationally exhibited artists on the planet,
ArtReview Asia aims to provide a central and independent platform upon which
those contributions can be evaluated and discussed, without restraint or
restriction, and in full consciousness of the ideas and contexts in which they
have evolved. ArtReview Asia is uniquely placed to analyse art produced in Asia
in the context of both local specificities and the global art discourse.

In keeping with ArtReview’s core goals, ArtReview Asia is also dedicated to
exploring the ways in which ideas developed by artists are absorbed by other
cultural genres, from fashion and film to architecture and design. Artists,
however, are at its heart: previous editions have featured collaborations with
both the continent’s leading figures and its hottest new talents – from Rirkrit
Tiravanija to Yuko Mohri, from Lee Bul to Haegue Yang and Apichatpong
Weerasethakul, from Heman Chong to Birdhead, Waqas Khan, Chim Pom,
Yang Fudong and Koki Tanaka.