Maria Taniguchi: Afterimage

Maria Taniguchi: Afterimage is the first monographic exhibition of the acclaimed artist presented by a Singapore museum. Taking its title from visual image traces that linger in our field of vision, the exhibition highlights the recurring concerns that run through her wider practice, such as repetition, time, and labour. The exhibition is anchored by Taniguchi’s “brick paintings,” (2008–ongoing), in which subtle shifts in colour and scale accumulate over time. Alongside these towering canvases, Afterimage presents a new version of Runaways, a series of wooden sculptures made up of straight lines and circles that function as three-dimensional drawings floating in the gallery. Four video works made between 2010 and 2026 complete the exhibition, further illuminating Taniguchi’s relationship to space, time, and artistic process.

about the artist

Maria Taniguchi (b. 1981, Dumaguete City; lives and works in Manila) works across a diverse range of media, including painting, video, sculpture, pottery, printmaking, drawing and writing. Central to her practice are questions of labour, repetition, and temporality, which she explores through an ongoing engagement with materiality and process. Her works invite audiences to experience material culture sensorially, connecting it to broader notions of time, space, labour and technology.

Taniguchi is the recipient of the 2015 Hugo Boss Asia Art Award. Her work has been featured in major international exhibitions including the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), the Gwangju Biennale (2018), the Biennale of Sydney (2018) and the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane (2015). Her solo exhibitions include presentations at MCAD Manila (2024) and the Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Quezon City (2011), among others.