14/10/2026
Artist Focus |
Anthony Chiou Anthony
In his first exhibition at Namuso Gallery, Anthony Chiou shows a selection of oil paintings on canvas alongside smaller works on paper, as part of the duo presentation ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐บ with Tja Ling Hu.
Born and raised in Suriname to a Brazilian mother and a Chinese Surinamese father, Chiou works from a position between cultures and continents. Family photographs, remembered landscapes and the particular palette of Suriname become the raw material for layered, intimate compositions.
His interest lies less in documenting a place than in how memory reshapes it. Colour, image and paint surface build on one another until a familiar scene turns into something else: a carrier of belonging, distance and inheritance. What remains are traces of places lived in, people remembered and histories handed down.
These paintings ask how the past keeps living in the present, and how the places and stories we carry shape the way we see.
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Anthony Chiou & Tja Ling Hu
Through 14 November 2026
Namuso Gallery, The Hague
Message Received, 2026,
Oil on linen, 60x90 cm
All I am is what I will be no. 18, 2026
Oil on paper
30x21 cm
All I am is what I will be no. 8,ย 2026
Oil on paper
30x21 cm
All I am is what I will be no. 7,ย 2026
Oil on paper
30x21 cm
Installation view by Julie Hyunkyung Cheon.
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