Deepening its long-standing commitment to Asia, Lehmann Maupin will participate in the inaugural edition of Art SG with a focused presentation of works from three women artists, Mandy El-Sayegh, Tammy Nguyen, and Lee Bul, all of whom work to engage communal and personal histories that reflect the intertwining cultures of Asia. The artists share an interest in process-based practice, which manifests in a distinctly layered, narrative aesthetic that permeates each oeuvre. The presentation in Booth BH06 serves to elucidate these specific parallels, and at the same time offers a broad survey of Lehmann Maupin's global program, including works by McArthur Binion, Liza Lou, Lari Pittman, Jennifer Steinkamp, and more.

Mandy El Sayegh’s oeuvre explores the compounding nature of information. Created through the assemblage of material and hand-painted markings, these works represent the process of trapping, distilling, and retaining knowledge or data; they capture both intended meaning and happenstance association. The artist roots her highly process-driven practice in an exploration of material and language as a means of investigating the formation and break-down of bodily, linguistic, and political systems of order. In several new works presented at the fair, El-Sayegh engages imagery pertaining to the body in order to explore the relationship between self-representation and biological and societal structures. El-Sayegh’s work is on view through September 2023 in the group exhibition “Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond" at LACMA. Her next solo exhibition will open at Lehmann Maupin New York in April 2023.