Contemplative Materials
Featuring works by Iswanto Soerjanto, Liu Liling and Sarah Isabelle Tan
4 – 26 July 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, 4 July 2026, 3pm – 7pm
Exhibition Walkthrough: Saturday, 4 July 2026, 3pm – 3.30pm
[Followed by Introduction to “Indonesia Art World: Dr. Melani Setiawan’s Archive” from 3.30pm – 4pm, and Book Signing by Dr. Melani Setiawan from 4pm – 7pm]
Mizuma Gallery is proud to present Contemplative Materials, a group exhibition featuring Iswanto Soerjanto, Liu Liling, and Sarah Isabelle Tan, opening on 4 July 2026. Each of these artists works with processes of printing that become means and attempts of capturing time. Their works carve out spaces for slowness and contemplation within the blinding speed of everyday.
Iswanto Soerjanto uses alternative processes, such as chemigram, cyanotype, and gum bichromate printing, to create works that reflect balance in dualities. He experiments with chemical concoctions on photo-sensitive paper to create splatters, ripples, and washes of bright orange, rust red, and golden yellow. In his series ‘Purnama (dan) Tilem’, he draws inspiration from the Purnama (full moon) and Tilem (new moon) in Balinese culture and presents the abundance of the full moon and the introspection of the new moon through the texture and movement left behind in these chemical reactions.
Liu Liling‘s works shares a delicate interplay of light and shadow as well. However, she works with photographic imagery and a range of printing methods that includes overprinting on coated paper, where printer ink is free to morph and settle into the paper. She stretches the normally-instantaneous process of digital printing into weeks and months as she observes and shapes the printer ink while it forms into image. These imagery, made possible through her deliberate process, conjure senses of both deja vu and nostalgia, and create space to linger in place.
Sarah Isabelle Tan, meanwhile, pulls our attention to the invisible disappearance of time with works that grasps at fleeting memories. In her series ‘The Timeline: like the delayed rays of a star’, she scans unfixed photograms of botanicals to create snapshots of the photograms as it fades. Like memories as it alter with each recollection before it disappears, her works remind us that no matter how we experience time, the loss of time can only be felt after it has been lost.
Together, these artists catches the unseen movement of time. Through their practices, they highlight the natural ebb and flow of time, its experience relative to space and process, and its unwavering continuation. And by drawing our attention to the present, their works quietly push back on rapid pace of time that engulfs our daily experience and encourage us to pause, sit, and linger in contemplation.
Contemplative Materials, a group exhibition featuring works by Iswanto Soerjanto, Liu Liling, and Sarah Isabelle Tan will run from 4 July to 26 July at Mizuma Gallery, 22 Lock Road #01-34 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108939. The gallery will open from 11am to 7pm on Tuesdays to Saturdays, and 11am to 6pm on Sundays. The gallery will be closed on Mondays and Public Holidays.
An Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, 4 July 2026 from 3pm to 7pm, with an Exhibition Walkthrough from 3pm to 3.30pm. Following that, in conjunction with A Special Presentation: “Dr. Melani Setiawan’s Archive x Iwan Effendi” at Shop at Mizuma, we will hold a session of Introduction to “Indonesia Art World: Dr. Melani Setiawan’s Archive” from 3.30 to 4pm, and Book Signing by Dr. Melani Setiawan from 4pm to 7pm. All events are free and are open to the public, kindly RSVP to info@mizuma.sg.
Featuring works by Iswanto Soerjanto, Liu Liling and Sarah Isabelle Tan
4 – 26 July 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, 4 July 2026, 3pm – 7pm
Exhibition Walkthrough: Saturday, 4 July 2026, 3pm – 3.30pm
[Followed by Introduction to “Indonesia Art World: Dr. Melani Setiawan’s Archive” from 3.30pm – 4pm, and Book Signing by Dr. Melani Setiawan from 4pm – 7pm]
Mizuma Gallery is proud to present Contemplative Materials, a group exhibition featuring Iswanto Soerjanto, Liu Liling, and Sarah Isabelle Tan, opening on 4 July 2026. Each of these artists works with processes of printing that become means and attempts of capturing time. Their works carve out spaces for slowness and contemplation within the blinding speed of everyday.
Iswanto Soerjanto uses alternative processes, such as chemigram, cyanotype, and gum bichromate printing, to create works that reflect balance in dualities. He experiments with chemical concoctions on photo-sensitive paper to create splatters, ripples, and washes of bright orange, rust red, and golden yellow. In his series ‘Purnama (dan) Tilem’, he draws inspiration from the Purnama (full moon) and Tilem (new moon) in Balinese culture and presents the abundance of the full moon and the introspection of the new moon through the texture and movement left behind in these chemical reactions.
Liu Liling‘s works shares a delicate interplay of light and shadow as well. However, she works with photographic imagery and a range of printing methods that includes overprinting on coated paper, where printer ink is free to morph and settle into the paper. She stretches the normally-instantaneous process of digital printing into weeks and months as she observes and shapes the printer ink while it forms into image. These imagery, made possible through her deliberate process, conjure senses of both deja vu and nostalgia, and create space to linger in place.
Sarah Isabelle Tan, meanwhile, pulls our attention to the invisible disappearance of time with works that grasps at fleeting memories. In her series ‘The Timeline: like the delayed rays of a star’, she scans unfixed photograms of botanicals to create snapshots of the photograms as it fades. Like memories as it alter with each recollection before it disappears, her works remind us that no matter how we experience time, the loss of time can only be felt after it has been lost.
Together, these artists catches the unseen movement of time. Through their practices, they highlight the natural ebb and flow of time, its experience relative to space and process, and its unwavering continuation. And by drawing our attention to the present, their works quietly push back on rapid pace of time that engulfs our daily experience and encourage us to pause, sit, and linger in contemplation.
Contemplative Materials, a group exhibition featuring works by Iswanto Soerjanto, Liu Liling, and Sarah Isabelle Tan will run from 4 July to 26 July at Mizuma Gallery, 22 Lock Road #01-34 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108939. The gallery will open from 11am to 7pm on Tuesdays to Saturdays, and 11am to 6pm on Sundays. The gallery will be closed on Mondays and Public Holidays.
An Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, 4 July 2026 from 3pm to 7pm, with an Exhibition Walkthrough from 3pm to 3.30pm. Following that, in conjunction with A Special Presentation: “Dr. Melani Setiawan’s Archive x Iwan Effendi” at Shop at Mizuma, we will hold a session of Introduction to “Indonesia Art World: Dr. Melani Setiawan’s Archive” from 3.30 to 4pm, and Book Signing by Dr. Melani Setiawan from 4pm to 7pm. All events are free and are open to the public, kindly RSVP to info@mizuma.sg.