ArtAsiaPacific Magazine - ArtAsiaPacific Issue 144, Jul/Aug 2025

In this issue

In our cover feature, Xintian Tina Wang interviewed Christine Sun Kim during the American artist’s midcareer survey at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Kim inhabits sound not as a given, but as a contested space—a terrain of power where access is not granted but taken.
In our second feature, our contributing editor Ryan Su, a practicing arts lawyer, looks at intellectual property rights and the boundaries of authorship and creative labor in the age of AI.
Up Close spotlights the haunting sculpture Head of a Dancer by Richard Hawkins; Taiwanese artist group Xindian Boys’ poetic site-specific projection Don’t Worry, Baby; and Sopheap Pich’s Silent Restraint, which revisits his first-ever rattan work of a human lung.
For Inside Burger Collection, Larissa Kikol discusses Ranti Bam’s unique alchemy of transforming earthy terracotta into vessels for healing and empathy.
In Profiles, our new managing editor Michele Chan met up with gallerists Lorraine Kiang and Edouard Malingue in their first US outpost as well as back home in their Hong Kong flagship. Andy St. Louis chronicles the life experience of Korean artist Hyun Nahm, while Matt A. Hanson spoke with Paris-based filmmaker Ali Kazma on the eve of his opening at the Istanbul Modern.
Elsewhere in the issue, Johanna Bear penned an essay about environmental justice inspired by the exhibition “Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania” curated by Taloi Havini. For Dispatch, we hear from Manuela Lietti about the cultural regeneration taking place in Milan. We also travel to Riyadh to visit the studio of Nasser Al Salem, who is redefining traditional Arabic calligraphy.
In Reviews, among shows covered from Mumbai to Houston, Arthur Solway reviews the much-overdue retrospective of the late Ruth Asawa.
Finally, for One on One, Beijing’s Lin Jingjing reflects on Wael Shawky’s video Drama 1882. Like many artists in this issue, Shawky’s work compels us to embrace a more expansive, inclusive vision of creative practice.