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A+ WORKS of ART is a contemporary art gallery based in Kuala Lumpur. Collaboration is key to the ethos of A+ WORKS of ART.

Founded in 2017, A+ WORKS of ART strives to engage contemporary practices and discussions in new media art, especially photography, video, installation and performance art. A+ WORKS of ART is a contemporary art gallery based in Kuala Lumpur, with a geographic focus on Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Founded in 2017, the gallery presents a wide range of contemporary practices, from painting to perform

ance, drawing, sculpture, new media art, photography, video and installation. Its exhibitions have showcased diverse themes and approaches, including material experimentation and global conversations on social issues. Since its opening, the gallery has worked with artists, curators, writers, collectors, galleries and partners from within the region and beyond, and continues to look out for new collaborations. The gallery name is a play on striving for distinction but also on the idea that art is never without context and is always reaching to connect—it is always “plus” something else. SSM: JL Contemporary Art Sdn Bhd 201601006166 (1177093-H)

29/08/2026

As the exhibition draws to a close, we invite you to revisit Measure by hand, sight, or song by Lesley-Anne Cao, curated by Carlos Quijon, Jr., with today marking the final day of the exhibition.

In this continuation of the conversation, Lesley-Anne Cao reflects on her relationship with the exhibition as a form, and how presence, presentation, and incompleteness shape the way she makes and presents her work.

She speaks about her interest in the atmospheric—from sound and movement to works that activate without direct human intervention—and how the experience of a work shifts as viewers move through the space.

Cao also considers when a work might be understood as finished, and how materials and the exhibition space can continue to produce possibilities beyond the artist’s initial intention.

27/08/2026

A+ WORKS of ART is delighted to present ‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto Marv Recinto which brings together the works of nine Southeast Asian artists to interrogate the hostile and unresolved nature of administratively constitutive land:

Betty Adii Betty Adii
Izat Arif
Cian Dayrit
Uri de Ger
Christina Lopez
Phương Linh Nguyễn
Sai ▇▇▇
Pangrok Sulap
Jo Tanierla

Through a series of works spanning drawing, video and installation, artists working in activism and/or community organising from Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Vietnam reckon with the material consequences of (neo)colonial power.

Territorium, Tell Us What Happened positions territory as a site of ongoing contention where land, postcoloniality and truth remain entwined and ambivalent.

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Opening reception
Saturday, 5 September 2026
2–6PM
A+ Works of Art

3PM — Exhibition Tour
with Marv Recinto, Izat Arif, Cian Dayrit, Uri de Ger, and Christina Lopez.

4PM — No Good for A+
Live performance by No Good.

5PM —
Asrulfaizal (Jaha Amareka) in conversation with No Good and Tok Ngulu Machey.

26/08/2026

‘Measure by hand, sight, or song’, a solo exhibition by Lesley-Anne Cao Lesley-Anne Cao , curated by Carlos Quijon, Jr. Carlos Quijon Jr. will be ending this weekend!

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We can glean from Lesley-Anne Cao’s inclination towards playful and poetic material improvisation: magnets as diminutive earth, landscapes as discrete dispersals of earth’s presence. “Though the work is not interactive, part of the idea is that magnets are of course not permanently fixed. Though they can be strong, they carry the potential to shift, detach, be arranged, or be removed completely.”

Each landscape consists of a composition of magnetic objects—steel ball chains, metal testers, other magnets, in previous iterations: metallic paper and fabric—set inside a metal box frame. Each assemblage is a world in its own, almost a maquette. While typical landscapes present a vantage point that prompts us to recognize distance, the magnetic compositions with its seeming miniature world invites us to view it closer.

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Measure by hand, sight, or song
Curated by Carlos Quijon, Jr.
11 July to 29 August 2026

Venue: A+ Works of Art
Gallery Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 7pm

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Fabrication by Huak Huak
Photographs by Eiffel Chong

23/08/2026

Happy Birthday, Ho Rui An! Ho Rui An

Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working at the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance, and theory. Through lectures, essays, and films, his research examines the relations between labour, technology, and capital across different systems of governance in a global age.

He has presented projects at the Shanghai Biennale; Bangkok Art Biennale; Gwangju Biennale; Jakarta Biennale; Sharjah Biennial; Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien; Singapore Art Museum; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media. He was awarded the Young Artist Award (2023) by the National Arts Council, Singapore, and the International Film Critics' Prize (FIPRESCI) at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany (2019), along with several fellowships and residencies around the world.

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Ho Rui An's works are currently on view in several exhibitions, including:

7 July - 7 September
Cosmos and Hearth: Living Together in the Age of Technology
Central Art Museum, Hangzhou

17 July - 16 November
Islands in the Net
Padimai Art & Tech Studio Singapore

18 July - 10 October
Ho Rui An: Ultimate Coin Test China High-Speed Rail
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

8 August - 15 November
Economies of Deferral
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth

21 August - 18 October
Art Remembers
National Gallery Singapore

Be sure to save the date!

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Image Information:

Image 1: Courtesy of the Obayashi Foundation, photographed by Yuta Fuchikami

Image 2: A History of Intelligence in ((South)(East)) Asia, on view at Padimai Art & Tech Studio. Image courtesy of C-LAB Photography / dulub studio.jpg

Image 3-4: Fuelling Apocalypse (2024-2025).
Installation shot of Art Remembers, National Gallery Singapore 2026. Image courtesy of National Gallery Singapore

22/08/2026

Artist Interview | Lesley-Anne Cao Lesley-Anne Cao — ‘Measure by hand, sight, or song’ curated by Carlos Quijon Jr.

In this interview, Lesley-Anne Cao shares more about the ideas behind Measure by hand, sight, or song, her interests in working with materials, and the everyday elements that recur throughout the exhibition—from rocks, metal, water, and magnets to the mechanisms that allow these materials to move, respond, and improvise.

For Cao, improvisation is not simply about spontaneity, but about creating conditions in which materials can develop their own rhythms, behaviors, and possibilities.

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Measure by hand, sight, or song
Curated by Carlos Quijon, Jr.
11 July to 29 August 2026

Venue: A+ Works of Art
Gallery Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 7pm

20/08/2026

‘Measure by hand, sight, or song’, a solo exhibition by Lesley-Anne Cao Lesley-Anne Cao , curated by Carlos Quijon, Jr. Carlos Quijon Jr.

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Three and a half billion years (2024 – ongoing), a series of magnetic assemblages that the artist conceptualized and created to reimagine landscapes and generic ideas around landscape painting, span both registers of improvisation alluded to at the start of this essay. For Cao, the work is an experiment: “What do landscapes say about what is visible, legible, and intelligible to us?”

“I am thinking about how the earth itself is a magnet—a material that can be small, thin, and pliant, can be held in the hand, can be scattered—yet its underlying presence is in all landscapes, both geographic and in the genre of art.”

We can glean from this Cao’s inclination towards playful and poetic material improvisation: magnets as diminutive earth, landscapes as discrete dispersals of earth’s presence.

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Measure by hand, sight, or song
Curated by Carlos Quijon, Jr.
11 July to 29 August 2026

Venue: A+ Works of Art
Gallery Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 7pm

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Fabrication by Huak Huak
Photographs by Eiffel Chong

18/08/2026

We were pleased to share Ho Rui An's Ho Rui An Figures of History and the Grounds of Intelligence on 5 August at Black Box Salihara. Thank you to everyone who joined us for the evening!

Presented as a lecture performance, Figures of History and the Grounds of Intelligence travels back in time to probe the intersecting histories of state planning, global networks, and cybernetics, from the Cold War to today’s generative AI boom.

Unfolding as a dialogue between two screens – one sourced from historical archives, pop culture, and the internet; the other generated live by an AI model – both artist and work question: what does it mean for machines to “learn” from history without understanding it? At stake is the future of representation itself, in a world where images appear to have no history.

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Image Information:

Image 1-4: Image courtesy of Komunitas Salihara Arts Center

08/08/2026

‘Measure by hand, sight, or song’, a solo exhibition by Lesley-Anne Cao Lesley-Anne Cao , curated by Carlos Quijon, Jr. Carlos Quijon Jr.

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In Amphibian palm (2024 – ongoing), a new iteration of which is presented in this exhibition, delicate undulations of water flip through “books” Lesley-Anne Cao has created out of various materials—waterproof paper, textile, plastic and netting used for fruit packaging.

The sound, a new composition by longtime collaborator Itos Ledesma, brings together the vivaria of books within one acoustic atmosphere.
The timer sets up the conditions for the activity: how much time does it take to flip through one side and start on the other. The artist sets up the conditions, responds to the materials’ response, and allows the activity to create its own rhythm, its own life.

In this sense, Amphibian palm departs from the typical work of modular mechanisms that thrive in rules and restrictions. Borrowing from Luigi Pareyson, Italian theorist of the formative: “It is at the same time the law and the outcome of its formation.” This way, Cao’s improvisational poetics comes closer to the workings of the environmental or the atmospheric rather than the predictability of code or efficiency of machine.

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Measure by hand, sight, or song
Curated by Carlos Quijon, Jr.
11 July to 29 August 2026

Venue: A+ Works of Art
Gallery Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 7pm

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Fabrication by Huak Huak
Photographs by Eiffel Chong

05/08/2026

Just a few more weeks left to catch Tan Zi Hao's Tan Zi Hao work "You Again" at the exhibition COSMO, ASIA, PEOPLE: Reinventing People in a Planetary Age, at ACC Creation (Space 3 / Space 4)!

The 2026 ACC Thematic Exhibition, “COSMO, ASIA, PEOPLE,” adopts the image of a dancing figure in the form of a bird by LEE Ungno as its prologue, accompanied by the subtitle: “Reinventing People in a Planetary Age.”

In an era when our very survival is at risk and it is difficult to imagine a different future, this exhibition adopts three symbolic keywords as its key terms to envision new subjects who can live in the present while dreaming of alternative possibilities. , , . By connecting the mystery and harmony of cosmology, the lives of non-Western subjects, and the possibilities of “people” beyond anthropocentric thinking, the exhibition seeks to defamiliarize the now-familiar future and awaken new ways of imagining it.

Featuring 31 artists from eight Asian countries, the exhibition explores the possibilities of new forms of existence through diverse media, including painting, installation, and video.

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Venue: ACC Creation (Space 3 / Space 4), Gwangju, South Korea
Date: 14 May – 23 August 2026

Be sure to catch Tan Zi Hao’s work before the exhibition ends!

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Image Information:

Image 1–3: Poster of COSMO, ASIA, PEOPLE: Reinventing People in a Planetary Age. Image courtesy of the ACC Creation.

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