BIASA ART OPENS THE DOOR TO NEW ARTISTIC VOICES WITH “READY TO BE SEEN N.1”

Images courtesy of BIASA Art

An Invitation to Look Closer

There are moments when discovering art feels less like finding something new, and more like recognising something you have always been looking for. Sometimes, it begins with a feeling—a landscape that feels strangely familiar, a surface that invites a second look, or a detail that stays with you long after.

Jasmine Ansori & Josephine Kingsley

It is this sense of discovery that shapes READY TO BE SEEN N.1, the first of a nine-exhibition series by BIASA Art presenting artists and practices new to the public eye. Running at BIASA Art Ubud from 1 September to 15 November 2026, the exhibition brings together Jasmine Ansori and Josephine Kingsley, two emerging artists living and working in Bali whose practices explore distinct approaches to image, material, and perception.

The programme focuses on artists living in Indonesia selected for their aesthetic significance and commitment to their practices. BIASA Art provides an unrestricted platform for them to present their work to a mixed audience, with pieces offered at accessible prices—inviting visitors to discover new voices and perhaps take a first step into collecting or commissioning art.

Josephine Kingsley – Artwork

Born in 1997 and a Fine Arts graduate of the Institute of Technology, Bandung (ITB), Jasmine Ansori is a multidisciplinary artist working across fine art, graphic design, and digital media. Driven by research and experimentation, her practice explores visuals that evoke emotion and a sense of liminality.

Presented by Interni Cipta Selaras

For READY TO BE SEEN N.1, Jasmine returns to drawing through charcoal landscapes where natural forms surface, recede, and reappear. Presented in a simplified, repeated format, the works highlight her distinctive use of charcoal powder and explore the relationship between landscape, memory, and perception. Her process begins with erasure rather than addition.

Jasmine Ansori – Artwork

“I explore mark-making through an inverted process. Instead of adding lines to the surface, I erase existing marks and allow the emerging light to guide the drawings toward their final forms. Each act of erasure becomes an act of remembering: a search for where light emerges from darkness. The process retains a sense of secrecy between its beginning and end, holding the possibilities within the liminal landscapes of the mind. Natural landscapes offer me another way of seeing: a space between the eye and the mind where feelings can remain after my physical presence has moved away. Through drawing, I consider the transformations occurring within a landscape and the discoveries made possible through sustained acts of looking. Through this series, I invite viewers to experience mark-making as an exploration of memory and impermanence. By observing the details of a landscape, they may begin to form their own inner landscapes.”

The landscapes become more than depictions of nature, offering spaces where memory, absence, and feeling can surface, leaving room for each viewer to form an inner landscape of their own. Jasmine lives and works in Ubud, Bali.

Josephine Kingsley, born in 2000 and a graduate of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, is a self-taught artist. Her practice has evolved through independent exploration and experimentation. Working primarily in painting and mixed media, she explores memory, materiality, and place through the emotional significance of everyday objects. Texture, imperfection, and found materials allow her to consider how objects retain traces of experience, identity, and impermanence.

“My practice is rooted in an intuitive negotiation between structure and softness. Working with oil pastel, acrylic, and metallic leaf, I build surfaces that hold tension rather than resolve it. Fragmentation is treated not as rupture but as a condition of intimacy, allowing multiple states to coexist without hierarchy. Repetition and subtle shifts in density become ways of listening to the material as it accumulates and resists control. I am interested in how surfaces remember touch and how layers register time, hesitation, and decision. The work often begins with loose gestures and is slowly refined through acts of covering, erasing, and re-entering. Metallic leaf appears not as ornament but as an interruption: a reflective pause that catches light, alters how the viewer moves across the surface, and asks them to slow down and recalibrate their attention.”

Through layers that are covered, erased, and revisited, Josephine creates surfaces that seem to carry their own physical memory, while metallic leaf becomes a reflective pause that shifts the viewer’s attention. She lives and works in Uluwatu, Bali.

Jasmine and Josephine offer distinct yet connected perspectives—one through landscape and memory, the other through material, objects, and the traces of time. Their works embody the spirit of READY TO BE SEEN: making emerging art more accessible and inviting viewers to discover what resonates, perhaps taking a first step into collecting.

That openness is also part of BIASA Art’s own history. Founded in Bali in 2005 by Susanna Perini, BIASA Art emerged from her passion for contemporary art and close ties with artists across Indonesia and beyond. At a time when contemporary art had limited visibility in Bali, it provided a space for artists to exhibit, create, and experiment freely.

Today, BIASA Art has spaces in Bali and Jakarta and continues to champion material-based practices, the intersection of art and craft, and new video works, with collaborations including the National Gallery Jakarta, MACRO Rome, Delfina Foundation London, and the Indonesian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

As part of BIASA Group, it shares a philosophy with the fashion line BIASA—rooted in cultural depth, creative freedom, and respect for process. With READY TO BE SEEN N.1, that spirit extends to a new generation, inviting audiences to discover what resonates and perhaps take their first step into art collecting.

READY TO BE SEEN N.1
Featuring Jasmine Ansori and Josephine Kingsley

BIASA Art Ubud
1 September–15 November 2026
12.00–18.00
Jl. Raya Sanggingan, Ubud, Bali