Cuturi Gallery is delighted to present The Flood, a solo exhibition by Singaporean artist Quan Lim (b. 1996). In his first collaboration with the gallery, Lim explores the tension between self-preservation and collective existence, drawing on narratives of catastrophe. From Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa to flood myths across cultures, his paintings fuse abstraction with figuration to construct contemporary tableaus animated by instinct, conflict, and survival.
Influenced by the old master tradition of Goya and the baroque excess of Frank Stella, Lim layers gestural marks with recurring figures to create images that hover between coherence and dissolution. While flood myths describe destruction followed by cleansing and renewal, Géricault’s vision subverts this–invoking the custom of the sea and the breakdown between self. Here, to devour becomes a metaphor for the collapse of boundaries and to consume is not merely to survive but to become complicit in a ritual of destruction and rebirth.
Lim draws obsessively, letting forms surface from layered marks as if excavated from debris. His paintings speak of desire, of catastrophe and renewal, moral decay and myth-making, and pose the question: what does it mean to endure when the waters never recede?
The Flood will be on view at 61 Aliwal Street, Singapore 199937, from 16 August to 13 September 2025.
