Jakkai Siributr’s assemblages of fabrics, tchotchkes, beads, and personal memorabilia immediately prompt questions about the reasons to play with both the experiential and the iconic. Siributr grew up on the ‘spirit-filled’ streets of Bangkok, where there is an everyday animism: spirit-houses and shrines, devotional offerings of coke bottles and ornate garlands, glittering temples, and saffron-robed trees. This is one context with which to consider Siributr’s exceptional methods within contemporary art.

What if basketball had been invented by Filipinas, and they still ruled the court? That’s the premise of Empress, Jenifer K Wofford’s speculative origin myth for the game.

In attempting to define collage over the years, Gary-Ross Pastrana has fortuitously stumbled upon the evolution of his own practice. The result has become a clear indication of not just forms and images being developed but of a kind of language in its own right—his own.

Soft, Incandescent Rage follows the hallucinations, furies, despairs, and joys of a fictional amalgam housewife. Through this exhibition, artist Liv Vinluan further extends her present inquiries, tracing the simultaneous braiding and unraveling of a woman’s self.