LONDON.- White Cube Mason’s Yard is pleased to present ‘Lesser Numerator’, an exhibition of new paintings by Christine Ay Tjoe. Focusing on the human condition, Ay Tjoe’s expressive works address themes of philosophy and spirituality, attempting to connect with our most powerful emotions and deep psychological fears.

Created over the past year in her studio in Bandung, Indonesia, Ay Tjoe’s new works explores the idea of the smallest and most vital part of the self that can be used to guide personal action, the impact of which can ripple outwards in a community to drive change in wider society.

The show features new oil on canvas paintings in the artist’s trademark abstract expressionist style, with dynamic compositions brimming with latent energy.

Powerful and revelatory, these works realise the artist’s profound psychic excavations and philosophical investigations, this time exploring the possibility of choosing restraint in a culture of rapacity and limitless appetite.

Christine Ay Tjoe was born in 1973 in Bandung, Indonesia, where she studied and continues to live and work. Her work has been exhibited across Asia, including a major retrospective at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2018) and in Europe at the Hall Art Foundation in Derneburg, Germany (2022). Ay Tjoe has also been featured in international group exhibitions, including Asia Society Triennial, New York (2020); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2017); National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2012); Singapore Art Museum (2012); Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice, Italy (2011); Saatchi Gallery, London (2011); Shanghai Contemporary (2010); National Gallery, Jakarta (2009); Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (2005); and the 1st Beijing International Art Biennale, China National Museum of Fine Art (2003).