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C. A. Xuan Mai Ardia

Yee I-Lann, with weaving by Kak Roziah, Kak Sanah, Kak Kinnuhong, Kak Koddil, Tikar Reben, 2021, video still. Image courtesy Andy Chia.

Yee I-Lann: Until We Hug Again at CHAT, Hong Kong

Yee I-Lann's textile works encourage to embrace and reconcile differences, as well as local cultural traditions, while resisting cultural homogenisation.

Kawita Vatanajyankur My Mother and I (Vacuum III), 2021, (still from video) colour, silent, 7 min:20sec. Image courtesy the artist.

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Artists’ Films Galore this Autumn with MCAD Manila

In collaboration with worldwide institutions, MCAD Manila proposes two artists' films programmes throughout this Autumn.

"Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective", installation view of A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe, 2021, Gropius Bau, Berlin. Photo: © Luca Girardini

Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective at the Gropius Bau, Berlin

"A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe" spans the last 80 years of the Japanese artist's oeuvre.

Former Armed Forces’ Hospital, Gwangju, a location of the "Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning: the 13th Gwangju Biennale". Image courtesy Gwangju Biennale Foundation.

Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning: the 13th Gwangju Biennale — Part 3

ASIA looks at some of the new commissions at Asia's oldest biennale, which sets out to "examine the spectrum of the extended mind".

Bird-shaped earthenware, Age of the Three States, Gwangju National Museum, exhibition view at 13th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju National Museum, 2021. Photo: Sang tae Kim.

Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning: the 13th Gwangju Biennale — Part 2

ASIA looks at some of the new commissions at Asia's oldest biennale, which sets out to "examine the spectrum of the extended mind".

Korakrit Arunanondchai, Songs for Dying, 2021, exhibition view at 13th Gwangju Biennale, Horanggasy Artpolygon, 2021. Photo: Sang tae Kim.

Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning: the 13th Gwangju Biennale — Part 1

ASIA explores the 13th Gwangju Biennale "Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning" and looks at some of the new artist commissions.

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ASIA | Art Spectacle International Asia is an independent online magazine covering contemporary art from Asia-Pacific to the Middle East.

Founder and Editor C. A. Xuân Mai Ardia is a Vietnamese-Italian from Padova, Italy. She currently resides near Venice, Italy, but she has lived around the world for more than 20 years. London was her home throughout university and her first forays in the art world and gallery work, until she moved to Shanghai in 2006 where she worked for Pearl Lam Galleries (then Contrasts Gallery) until 2009. She has lived between Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Padova, Italy in 2009-2016, where she worked at Galerie Qyunh, Craig Thomas Gallery and contributed to Art Radar.

Mai holds a BA in Chinese | History of Art and Archaeology and an MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK, as well as an MSc in Development Studies | Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the School of Development, Innovation and Change (SDIC), University of Bologna, Italy. She has worked in the conservation of world cultural heritage in Rome and in contemporary art galleries in London, Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh City. Her articles have been published in Art Review Asia, Art Radar, The Culture Trip and CoBo Social.

Mai joined the Art Radar team as Copy Editor in May 2013, and became Staff Writer in November of the same year. Continuing to contribute her writing to Art Radar, she took up the role of Managing Editor from November 2015 to December 2018, when Art Radar ceased publication.

To continue on and contribute to the dissemination of contemporary art ideas and practices from Asia, Mai founded ASIA in Spring 2019.