IN “THROUGH REVERIE: LOVE AND MEMORY”, CLASUTTA EXPLORES THE QUIET FRAGMENTS OF INTIMACY AND LONGING

Images courtesy of Whitestone Gallery Singapore

Fragments of Intimacy

At Whitestone Gallery Singapore, Through Reverie: Love and Memory unfolds as a quiet meditation on intimacy, longing, and emotional remembrance—offering a contemplative setting for stories of connection, vulnerability, and what lingers long after moments have passed. Running from 9 May to 28 June 2026, the duo-solo exhibition invites visitors into emotional worlds shaped by memory, closeness, and the subtle complexities of human connection.

There are feelings we never completely leave behind. They soften with time, change shape, and occasionally return when least expected—through fleeting memories, unfinished conversations, or emotions we once believed had settled quietly within us. It is within this delicate emotional space that Jakarta-based artist Clasutta presents Through Reverie: Love and Memory, a duo-solo exhibition alongside Malaysian artist C.K. Koh.

Presented by Interni Cipta Selaras

Following her international debut with Whitestone Gallery after graduating from Atreyu Moniaga Project 12 in 2024, Clasutta has continued to expand her artistic practice across cities and audiences. As the first Indonesian artist represented by the gallery, this exhibition marks another meaningful milestone in her evolving international journey—one that reflects the growing resonance of her work beyond Jakarta.

Known for transforming everyday experiences into deceptively playful visual narratives, Clasutta creates emotional worlds that feel instantly familiar. Expressive figures and softly rounded forms may initially evoke lightness, yet beneath them lies something more layered: subtle tensions between closeness and distance, certainty and vulnerability, comfort and ambiguity. Her works gently reveal how emotions often exist in contradiction, shifting between tenderness and unease in ways that feel deeply human.

In Roommates?, her featured presentation within the exhibition, relationships unfold not through dramatic gestures, but through quieter emotional negotiations. Here, love is portrayed not as something fixed or absolute, but as a fluid condition—shaped by repetition, misunderstandings, attachment, and the compromises that gradually emerge through intimacy. Small moments slowly accumulate meaning, revealing how relationships are often sustained not through certainty, but through the subtle act of remaining.

Walking through the exhibition feels less like observing artworks from a distance and more like stepping into emotional fragments suspended in time. Certain works may evoke memories that feel strangely personal: moments of closeness, conversations left unfinished, or relationships that slowly changed form without ever fully announcing their transformation. Rather than guiding viewers toward conclusions, the exhibition creates space for reflection, allowing emotions to surface gently and without urgency.

This reflective atmosphere continues through the works of C.K. Koh, whose presentation, Folded Glimpses, draws from personal photographic archives to capture fleeting moments caught between observation and memory. Through subtle visual gestures, Koh reflects on the ways memory continuously shifts—reshaped over time by distance, emotion, and perspective.

More than an exhibition about relationships or remembrance, Through Reverie: Love and Memory becomes an invitation to pause—to sit with emotions that resist explanation, and perhaps recognize fragments of ourselves reflected back through memory, intimacy, and longing.