Galeri Sasha is pleased to present Lucid, a solo exhibition by Gan Tee Sheng (b. 1984, Kluang, Malaysia). Lucid presents a new body of oil paintings by Gan Tee Sheng that considers memory as material. Developed over the past year, the works extend a practice shaped by more than two decades of sustained inquiry. This marks our first presentation with Tee Sheng, and his first solo exhibition in 9 years.
Lucid considers what lingers after experience recedes — the psychic residue that settles once narrative clarity erodes. Working in oil, he builds ambiguous forms that accumulate and compress within shallow, indeterminate space. Paint is layered and withdrawn, allowing forms to emerge through pressure and repetition. Bodily fragments hover at the threshold of recognition. Limbs fold into objects; bodies dissolve into mass. The surface retains evidence of revision, reinforcing the instability that underpins the work.
This series of works brings together a year of concentrated production into a body of paintings that examines memory as material. Memory appears here as feeling, condensed into form, surface, and spatial tension. Experiences detach from chronology and return as fragments — desire, intimacy, confusion — embedded within the structure of the image. The paintings stage a psychological interior where meaning remains provisional and narrative recedes. Across the exhibition, forms often gravitate toward a central axis, suggesting both containment and release. The works operate as sites of suspension, where emotional residue persists without full disclosure.
Gan Tee Sheng (b. 1984, Kluang, Malaysia) has maintained a disciplined studio practice largely outside institutional structures for over twenty years. His work engages the psychological residue of lived experience, developing a visual language that moves between figuration and abstraction. He has presented solo exhibitions at Taksu Singapore and Taksu Kuala Lumpur, and his works are held in the collection of ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, and in private collections across the region.
