After the Gesture situates itself within a postwar artistic and theoretical lineage, re-examining the notion of gesture as a category historically aligned with immediacy, expression, and the indexical presence of the artist’s body. In this context, gesture is no longer understood as a direct
act that affirms presence and authorship; rather, it is reconfigured as a mode of existence that persists beyond the event itself—
characterized by residue and deferred perception, and capable of generating meaning only in its aftermath.
Across the practices of Hélène de Chartlier, Frédéric Bergercardi, Justin Lee, and Julia Winter, the gesture is neither denied nor foregrounded; rather, it is displaced. What emerges is a field ofquiet negotiations between visibility and withdrawal, where the mark becomes sedimented, deferred, or even dissolved. In this sense, the works resist the immediacy often associated with gestural abstraction, privileging instead duration, memory, and the latent afterlife of form.
Drawing implicitly on discourses from phenomenology to post minimalism, After the Gesture proposes a recalibration of attention: from action to remainder, from expression to condition. The exhibition invites viewers to consider not the gesture itself, but its echo—its capacity to inhabit space, time, and perception long after the originating movement has ceased.                                                                                                                                                   #03-02, 14 Upper Circular Road, 058412 Singapore