Exhibitions
The SSX Exhibitions consisted of four curated art shows that showcased the projects created during the Artist Residency. This included not only the artists, but our team members and partners.
DATABODIES
September 6 – October 11, 2024
Arturo Jimenez
Haoran Chang
Carmela Laganse
Taien Ng-Chan
Objects Of Care
October 18 – November 22, 2024
Aram Siu Wai Collier
Jenny Kim
Provocations by Sean Lee and Yvonne Felix
Remesh
November 29, 2024 – January 10, 2025
Chris Perez
Jet Coghlan
Lux Gow-Habrich
Zebv Diez
Impart
January 17 – February 21, 2025
Amanda Ann-Min Wong
Sana Akram
Roda Medhat
Curated by Serena Zena
The Sari-Sari Xchange artist residency offers an environment for artists to explore the creative possibilities of emergent XR technology in application to their own practices. By facilitating collaborative opportunities, providing access to technological resources, and fostering artistic growth, this residency seeks to empower artists from the Asian diaspora to contribute their unique perspectives.
The Sari-Sari Xchange artist residency is facilitated in partnership with Tangled Arts and Disability, Reel Asian Film Festival, and Centre3 – our project partners.
Tangled Arts and Disability
DATABODIES
DATABODIES
September 6 – October 11, 2024
Arturo Jimenez
Haoran Chang
Carmela Laganse
Taien Ng-Chan
DataBodies plunges viewers into a multisensory world of digital installation art, where experimental and narrative works redefine the boundaries between physical and virtual realms. The exhibition harnesses an array of extended reality (XR) technologies, to blend, alter, or mirror the physical world in a virtual space. From food face filters to motion-sensor video installations to interactive kiosks, DataBodies invites playful experimentation and active engagement, urging viewers to engage bodily with the art, positioning the audience as a crucial participant that bridges the gap between the digital and the tangible.
The artists in DataBodies utilize domestic items, spaces, and imagery to cultivate a unique sense of absence in their work. That absence prompts reflection on what might have been, evoking nostalgia for things that may never have existed. It opens up space for the complexities and nuances of diasporic Asian identity. Artists give a glimpse of the foods from their childhoods; Chinese, Filipino, and Western foods swirl together, creating a concoction that can only be understood in hindsight. Rooms full of mundane items, either left behind or there for our use, tell fragmented stories of an individual’s life.
DataBodies highlights the tensions of digital and physical, of absence and presence, inviting the audience to fill the void in between. The artists raise questions about the spaces in XR and the bodies that inhabit them. Rather than offering answers, the works allow a novel view at the everyday items that shape our understanding of ourselves and our world. These pieces create a tapestry of stories that reveal the nuances of personal and communal identity and culture.
Objects of Care
Objects Of Care
October 18 – November 22, 2024
Aram Siu Wai Collier
Jenny Kim
Provocations by Sean Lee and Yvonne Felix
What does ‘care’ mean to you?
Everyone’s definition is different. Some interpretations may overlap, intersect, or run parallel without ever meeting. Your understanding of care is deeply influenced by your cultures, upbringings, homes, habits, and rituals.
The artists in Objects of Care explore this theme in the modern context. Nuanced and personal, yet tethered to the digital world. Imagery of domesticity brings the works together, inviting you in. A randomized parental apology generator awaits a conversation at your dining room table. Your closet is flooded with colourful unnatural light, while your living room holds an array of intangible objects, some familiar, some not.
Objects of Care creates a space for you to engage, experiment, and reimagine what care signifies to you.
Remesh
Remesh
November 29, 2024 – January 10, 2025
Chris Perez
Jet Coghlan
Lux Gow-Habrich
Zebv Diez
In an era where technology intricately shapes our daily existence, each moment is filtered through screens, algorithms, and digital interfaces. Our interactions, our movements, our understanding of the world—all are mediated by the vast digital ecosystem that surrounds us. Yet, within this technological landscape, diasporic experiences often remain marginalized, rendered invisible or fetishized by mainstream narratives. At the same time, our communities face a complex dilemma: to engage with the digital world, knowing its history of surveillance, bigotry, and exploitation, or to abstain from engagement, risking further erasure in a space that increasingly defines cultural presence.
remesh brings together a group of artists who, from their diasporic positions, confront and navigate this tension. Each artist in the exhibition explores the intersection of identity, technology, representation, and access, offering visions of a futurity that is personal, collective, and speculative. The works presented in this show challenge the boundaries between the digital and physical realms, using technology not merely as a tool, but as a means to interrogating how culture, history, and identity are shaped, distorted, and reclaimed in an ever-evolving digital landscape.
Through varied digital approaches, these artists explore themes of space, gesture, and objecthood, while drawing from personal, cultural, and historical references. From hand made ceramic hairpins that have been 3D-scanned and translated into whimsical digital environments, to real-world sites that have been digitally unraveled and reconfigured, the work is both grounded in the material and propelled into new virtual dimensions. A floating mask beckons viewers to voice their grievances into the void of the internet, confronting our readiness to offer up our experiences in the digital sphere. Bright animations of historical Filipino courtship gestures form a new digital expression.
In remesh, each artist engages with a hybrid process, merging digital and physical practices, to make visible the complexities of diasporic experience in the age of digital globalization. The works not only respond to the realities of representation and appropriation, but also offer a creative perspective for the ways in which diasporic futures might unfold in a world increasingly defined by its digital presence. The exhibition probes the ways we engage with digital spaces, navigating the tension between critiquing these technologies and actively intervening and creating with them, and exploring what a future shaped by diasporic perspectives and their presence in the digital world can look like.
Impart
Impart
January 17 – February 21, 2025
Amanda Ann-Min Wong
Sana Akram
Roda Medhat
Stories are the threads that weave us together, passed down through generations as vessels of knowledge, memory, and identity. In Impart, the artists explore the transformative ways we shape our communities, offering personal and unique perspectives on how our histories—both collective and individual—are interpreted, reshaped, and redefined. Through VR experiences and sculptures, the works examine the layers of meaning that emerge when cultures are inherited, lost, or altered, shaped by the presence and influence of each individual. The exhibition encourages viewers to reflect on the evolution of personal histories, revealing how they shift across time, space, and viewpoints, linking us through both the familiar and the unknown.
These works offer glimpses of what we leave behind, examining the impressions we make, what we pass on, and how we remain connected across generations. They ask us to consider how we impart our knowledge, our mark on the world, and the impact we have on others—prompting reflection on what we leave behind and how it shapes those who follow.