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DESCRIPTION:https://www.fridae.asia/tc/agenda/8447\n\nTyler Rollins Fine Ar
 t is pleased to welcome back Jimmy Ong for his second solo exhibition with
  the gallery\, entitled Elo Progo\, taking place from January 10 – Febru
 ary 23\, 2013.\n\nOne of Singapore’s preeminent contemporary artists\, O
 ng has been noted for his large-scale\, figurative charcoal works on paper
  since his first solo exhibitions in the 1980s. His early\, pioneering wor
 k focused on sexual identity and gender roles\, often within the context o
 f the traditional Chinese family. Now a US resident\, Ong has\, over the p
 ast twenty-five years\, explored the ways in which multiple identities and
  perspectives – whether sexual\, ethnic\, national\, or even generationa
 l – can coexist within the individual. His deeply personal works have ta
 ken inspiration from a stark analysis of his own experience\, and indeed o
 f his own physical form\, an ongoing process of what he calls “creative 
 self therapy.” \n\nIn recent years\, he has investigated issues relating
  to marital roles\, informed in part by his experience as a spouse in a ga
 y marriage. His inquiry has gradually broadened from the personal to the p
 lural and has incorporated gender archetypes as conveyed through mythology
  and spiritual traditions. His seminal exhibition\, Sitayana\, exhibited a
 t Tyler Rollins Fine Art in 2010 and subsequently acquired by the National
  Art Gallery of Singapore\, marked the first major public exhibition of th
 is new focus\, with its feminist re-imagining of the ancient Indian epic\,
  the Ramayana\, a work which continues to play a vibrant role throughout S
 outheast Asia\, acting as an endless source of inspiration for the region�
 ��s folk and popular cultures. Ong used the Ramayana as a point of departu
 re in creating new narratives that were informed by his sensitivity to the
  way gender roles play out in contemporary relationships.\n\nIn 2012\, Ong
 ’s investigation of the contemporary resonance of ancient myths led him 
 to a series of projects in Yogyakarta\, one of the major artistic centers 
 in Java\, Indonesia\, where he began documentary research into gender role
 s as reflected in folklore as well as contemporary society\, the latter sp
 ecifically relating to the local transgender community. His current exhibi
 tion\, Elo Progo\, takes its name and inspiration from the confluence of t
 he Elo and Progo rivers – one said to be male\, the other female – loc
 ated in the Kedu Plain near Borobudur\, one of Java’s sacred places. Ong
  was captivated by this local myth as well as the traditional Javanese pra
 ctice of meditation in water.\n\nThe Elo Progo exhibition centers on Ong�
 �s first public showing of video works\, which were inspired by the ritual
 s of water meditation and informed by themes of gender fluidity and mythic
  transformation. The exhibition also includes a new body of works on paper
 \, done in richly colored gouache\, that appropriate a type of Chinese spl
 ash ink brushwork in mirrored patterns created by the repetitive folding o
 f the paper along an axis. \n\nThrough a circular and meditative process o
 f drawing\, transferring\, and redrawing\, which echoes the cyclical\, rit
 ualistic time of the videos\, Ong has created a vivid series of works that
  features a recurring\, androgynous figure. In various degrees of abstract
 ion\, the figure is shown twice in each work\, in a mirroring of form that
  reflects Ong’s ongoing interest in ideas relating to duality\, the gend
 er binarism\, and the fluidity and transformation of identity.\n\nGALLERY 
 HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday\, from 10 am – 6 pm
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SUMMARY:JIMMY ONG: ELO PROGO
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