Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise

This publication accompanies the exhibition Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise. It constellates the practices of Nirmala Dutt, Imelda Cajipe Endaya, Amanda Heng, Dolorosa Sinaga and Phaptawan Suwannakudt—artists for whom art, life and community are intertwined. Spanning the 1960s to 2010s, their works engage questions of gender, labour and power amid the shifting social and political landscapes of Southeast Asia.

Featuring a commissioned text by Flaudette May Datuin, curatorial essays and republished writings and interviews with the artists, this book foregrounds their multifaceted roles as educators, writers, organisers and community builders. It traces how they have mobilised and reconfigured more fluid and equitable worlds for themselves and others—offering not answers but possibilities for how we might continue to imagine, act and create otherwise.

Publisher: National Gallery Singapore
Editor Biography: Joleen Loh is Curator at National Gallery Singapore. Her research engages with postwar and contemporary art from Singapore and Southeast Asia, focusing on the transnational circulation of art and ideas, gender and women’s artistic practices. Her curatorial projects include Singapore Stories: Pathways and Detours in Art (2025), Kim Lim: The Space Between. A Retrospective (2024), Nothing is Forever: Rethinking Sculpture in Singapore (2022) and Suddenly Turning Visible: Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia (1969–1989) (2019). She received her MA in History of Art from University College London, supported by the National Arts Council Postgraduate Scholarship, and her BA in Art History and Asian Studies from the University of Melbourne. She is currently co-editing a forthcoming reader on sculpture in Singapore.

Qinyi Lim is Curator at National Gallery Singapore, where she recently curated the annual Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission (2024) featuring New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana and co-curated Tropical (2023). She completed the de Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam (2012) and her research interests include looking at the pluralistic and gendered vocabularies that inform the way we define hierarchies, labour and the production of art.

Language: English
Country of Origin: Singapore
Page count: 168
Binding: Paperback
Search words: Singapore art, Southeast Asian art, collective, women artists