TEO ENG SENG WE ARE HAPPY. ARE YOU HAPPY? CATALOGUE Bangkok Design Week

TEO ENG SENG WE ARE HAPPY. ARE YOU HAPPY? CATALOGUE Bangkok Design WeekEdited by Seng Yu Jin and Roy Ng Teo Eng Seng: We Are Happy. Are You Happy? offers a comprehensive overview of Singapore artist Teo Eng Seng's bold experimentations over the last seven decades. Teo is known for his invention of what he terms paperdyesculp a malleable mixture of pulp, natural fibres and other commonplace materials, and his technique of finessing it, inspired by Chinese papermaking and calligraphic traditions, and Western abstraction.

After successive applications of wax and dye

gossip and autofiction

place and community from the 19th century to today

The Living Pictures Exhibition allows its audience to explore the changing roles of photography in Southeast Asia

as well as his modernisation of Chinese ink painting

Extent - 164 pp

Discover wonderful works of modern Southeast Asian art by forming different shapes with a handy tangram

the color experiment is said to be Van Gogh’s boldest over that period

Destiny Deacon’s playful but poignant work invites us to consider how identity is performed and represented

Issues of cross-cultural identity are foregrounded in these two titles: the Vietnamese-born Danish artist Danh Vo often draws from personal experiences to explore historical

Gouache on paper

Photography by Jaime Martinez