ASIA NOW 2025
October 2025, Paris — This autumn, Yeo Workshop is delighted to present a duo exhibition by Noor Mahnun (Anum) and Filippo Sciascia at ASIA NOW – The Paris Asian Art Fair, now in its 11th edition. The exhibition unfolds around a shared premise: Asia as a site of dialogue. Our duo-presentation turns on affinities that cross continents and disciplines—Asia as a site of belonging, and art as a medium of resonance. Both artists, through visually distinct practices and approaches, embody this transcontinental conversation at the core of Asia NOW’s mission.
For Anum (b.1964, Kelantan, Malaysia), this return to Europe marks a poignant milestone—forty years since her first solo in Florence, Italy. Trained in architecture in the United States before pursuing an arts major in Braunschweig, Germany, Anum’s practice is shaped by rigorous technique learnt and honed across continents before her return to Malaysia. Her figurative paintings interlace references from cinema, literature, and classical painting—Bollywood musicals, Salome’s dance, Poussin’s shepherds—creating compositions that appear delicate yet conceal subtle psychological narratives.
For Sciascia (b.1972, Sicily, Italy; lives and works in Bali, Indonesia), the story is one of embeddedness and immersion in Bali, Indonesia. A Sicilian artist who has lived in Bali for twenty-six years since 1998, he takes Light, humanity’s fundamental evolutionary driver, as both medium and metaphor for his compositions. Drawing on organic materials found in the tropics such as volcanic ash and fossilised amber, Sciascia subtly incorporates classical painting motifs and techniques to his works as well, rethinking the European art historical canon within Balinese culture and environment. His sculptural objects and paintings meditate on time, knowledge, and the intersections between anthropology, ritual, and technological evolution—a practice of temporal layering.
Together, Anum and Sciascia represent the crossings that Asia NOW has championed for more than a decade: between East and West, past and present, art history and lived experience. There is a transnational dialogue of methodologies and techniques amongst the two. They remind us that art is not simply a reflection of place, but a way of reimagining it.
VIP Preview: Tuesday, 21 October
Public Days: 22-26 October
Fair Location:
Monnaie de Paris, 11 Quai de Conti, Paris, France 75006
October 2025, Paris — This autumn, Yeo Workshop is delighted to present a duo exhibition by Noor Mahnun (Anum) and Filippo Sciascia at ASIA NOW – The Paris Asian Art Fair, now in its 11th edition. The exhibition unfolds around a shared premise: Asia as a site of dialogue. Our duo-presentation turns on affinities that cross continents and disciplines—Asia as a site of belonging, and art as a medium of resonance. Both artists, through visually distinct practices and approaches, embody this transcontinental conversation at the core of Asia NOW’s mission.
For Anum (b.1964, Kelantan, Malaysia), this return to Europe marks a poignant milestone—forty years since her first solo in Florence, Italy. Trained in architecture in the United States before pursuing an arts major in Braunschweig, Germany, Anum’s practice is shaped by rigorous technique learnt and honed across continents before her return to Malaysia. Her figurative paintings interlace references from cinema, literature, and classical painting—Bollywood musicals, Salome’s dance, Poussin’s shepherds—creating compositions that appear delicate yet conceal subtle psychological narratives.
For Sciascia (b.1972, Sicily, Italy; lives and works in Bali, Indonesia), the story is one of embeddedness and immersion in Bali, Indonesia. A Sicilian artist who has lived in Bali for twenty-six years since 1998, he takes Light, humanity’s fundamental evolutionary driver, as both medium and metaphor for his compositions. Drawing on organic materials found in the tropics such as volcanic ash and fossilised amber, Sciascia subtly incorporates classical painting motifs and techniques to his works as well, rethinking the European art historical canon within Balinese culture and environment. His sculptural objects and paintings meditate on time, knowledge, and the intersections between anthropology, ritual, and technological evolution—a practice of temporal layering.
Together, Anum and Sciascia represent the crossings that Asia NOW has championed for more than a decade: between East and West, past and present, art history and lived experience. There is a transnational dialogue of methodologies and techniques amongst the two. They remind us that art is not simply a reflection of place, but a way of reimagining it.
VIP Preview: Tuesday, 21 October
Public Days: 22-26 October
Fair Location:
Monnaie de Paris, 11 Quai de Conti, Paris, France 75006