Sixty Summers Here

Press release

Cuturi Gallery is proud to present Sixty Summers Here, celebrating a generation of ten young Singaporean artists in their 20s and 30s, whose practices embody the vitality and resilience of contemporary art-making. Marking Singapore’s 60th year of independence, the exhibition brings together works across painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, with a focus on process and nuanced observations of everyday life. Their practices, rooted in care and creative rigour, offer quiet but powerful propositions for how art can persist, connect, and continue to evolve. Collectively, they signal not just what is emerging, but what is already here—and here to stay.

This exhibition is anchored by a line of inquiry structured around five open-ended questions: Who is here, what is here, where is here, when is here, and why here? These are not posed as rhetorical or diagnostic prompts, but as entry points for reflection.

The exhibition features Singaporean artists Aisha Rosli, Anna Du Toit, Casey Tan, Faris Heizer, Joel Seow, Marla Bendini, Oneal Parbo, Shen Jiaqi, Vanessa Liem, and Yom Bo Sung. Each artist presents a distinct perspective on what it means to create within the art scene today. What connects them is a shared attentiveness to their environments and a willingness to navigate ambiguity between comfort and restlessness, visibility and marginality, structure and improvisation.

In the context of this commemorative year, the exhibition invites reflection on how artistic practices are shaped by place, time, and change. Rather than prescribing conclusions, Sixty Summers Here encourages viewers to slow down and attend to what is already unfolding. The works reflect a scene still in formation: sensitive, deliberate, and grounded in the present.

Sixty Summers Here will be on view at 61 Aliwal Street, Singapore 199937, from 12 July to 8 August 2025.

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