Introduction

Presented by Gravity Art Space and A+ Works of Art, Errant Life, Promiscuous Form features works of artists based in Manila, Kuala Lumpur, and Bangkok. The exhibition looks at artists whose practices speak to different forms of life, or interfacings between life and form: interspecies thinking and formmaking, the mediatization of life (or evidence of it), life of materials in the context of creative processes, and the conceptual life and afterlives of things.

The exhibition explores how forms shape and structure lives and how life informs and structures what forms may be imagined or made material. Ideas of form and life are intertwined and made to mutually constitute each other. Life is imagined to encompass not only organic existence but also participation and processes of social life and lives of concepts, materials, and objects as these travel and transform, and are translated within practice and into a proliferation of tropes and tenors. In this frame, the exhibition proposes to think about life and form as errant as they thrive in mobility and become susceptible to serendipity and contingency, and thus promiscuous as they mingle with each other and among others.