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. Taniguchi encourages audiences to view her works as a sensorial experience, connecting material culture with notions of time, space, labour, and technology. She works with a variety of approaches towards processing the legacies of modernism within an ambiguous cross-cultural context.