the still two-second review of art exhibitions this week:

1. sarani gunawickrama’s illumination of infinite minds. held at flaneur and curated by jeremy sharma (v. good sign). from afar, some of the more angular forms have a touch of shinoda’s older forms, but up close the pencil-patient-shading meditative and restrained, without raw edgy power.

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2. luke heng (who shares the name of minz-papa) is a recent graduate from la salle and part of a group show at galerie steph. eight works. needs watching, indeed.

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3. ikkan art gallery, mikito ozeki: facing the afterimage. i desperately wanted to and would almost definitely have (had i still been salaried) bought the piece labelled c8. paint-like scarlet monochrome beauty, flooding the eye suddenly with translucent, variegated colours, papery-lace-lattice-motley (every incision of the blade, sharp and frail) — depth, the kind of work that would grow with you, everchanging.

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