DEC 14 — Nothing Gold Can Stay

Independent contemporary art gallery, MODEKA CREATIVE SPACE, officially kicks things off with its pioneer exhibit, Nothing Gold Can Stay this December 14, 4PM at Warehouse 20A La Fuerza Plaza 1. The exhibit features works by local and international artists alike and will run from December 14 until January 31, 2020.

The lineup includes Dedy Sufriadi (Indonesia), Mark Nicdao (Philippines), Sinta Tantra (UK), Lynyrd Paras (Philippines), Ronald Apriyan (Indonesia), 13 Lucky Monkey (Philippines), Jono Pisano (Philippines), and Caryn Koh (Malaysia).

Lifted from Robert Frost’s 1923 poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, the exhibition gathers the works of different artists whose practices explore a spectrum of forms, themes, and, materiality. Here, an inquiry is made to consider the idea of impermanence as we struggle from what is deemed as the impalpable human desire for mortality and the difficult truth characterized by the nature of things —that in our world, nothing will remain forever.

In looking through the works of the artists in this exhibition, we are left to administer time in our own hands. Here, we reckon with the images and tales presented as we move along towards different junctures and trajectories. Bounded and confronted by time, we take a quiet walk among these works of art that somehow revel in an attempt to yield and capture a moment. As in the verses of the intrepid Frost, “So dawn goes down to day / Nothing gold can stay.”