Featured Art
Over the Influence is pleased to announce its latest show in the gallery’s Hong Kong space, with a major group exhibition entitled Beyond Borders.
Bringing together Camilla Perkins, Michael Kagan, Tubagus Salamudin Alamin, Suanjaya Kencut, Taku Obata, and Florent Stosskopf, international artists whose figurative works push the boundaries of contemporary representation.
This exhibition represents a visual dialogue that transcends geographical and cultural boundaries. From England to Japan, from the United States to Indonesia, these artists offer a global perspective on how movement, memory, and transformation are interpreted through different artistic traditions.
Each artist brings their own cultural identity through their medium while addressing universal themes. Michael Kagan captures pivotal moments of human achievement through his bold oil paintings. Tubagus and Suanjaya offer distinct Indonesian perspectives that navigate between traditional motifs and contemporary concerns. Camilla Perkins transforms ordinary landscapes into vibrant dreamscapes that function as portals to memory and imagination. Taku Obata’s evocative sketches and intimate sculpture present his process of translating breakdance movements into static form.
By bringing these artists together, we invite visitors to contemplate how different cultures capture the essence of movement and transformation, creating a rich experience that celebrates both the diversity and universality of contemporary artistic expression. The works create conversations that would be impossible if confined within traditional boundaries, revealing how contemporary art thrives in the spaces between defined territories.
We invite you to join us in exploring how artistic vision transcends national, cultural, and disciplinary borders.
ARTISTS
B. 1980, Saitama, Japan – Lives and works in Saitama, Japan
The work of Taku Obata revolves around the body in motion, notably in breakdance. Deeply connected to B-Boy culture in Japan, Obata captures, exaggerates and deforms the human body in dancing movement, emphasizing the bodies’ shapes, poses, and physiques, while eliminating the emotional or inner elements of the figures.
B. 1989 in Brittany, France. Lives and Works in Brittany, France..
Stosskopf’s work deftly blends traditional themes and archetypes through a contemporary perspective, reminiscent of Jonas Wood, Guy Yanai, Hillary Pecis, or Paul Wackers, using bright, unrelenting colours that lay out his complex still lives and scenes plucked from the annals of Classical Antiquity, the Baroque movement, and Modernism.
B. 1980, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. Lives and Works in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Known for his dramatic paintings of man pushing the limits of nature through technology and physical stamina, Kagan explores the physical and emotional journey that accompanies explorers from mountaineers to astronauts. Never removing paint once laid down, Kagan instinctively works with an impulsive hand toeing the line between control and chaos.
Camilla Perkins
Camilla Perkins (b. Hastings, 1990) is an artist and illustrator born and raised in East Sussex, UK. Her fine art practice explores how colour can affect memory, imagining her pieces as windows that transport the viewer back to their favourite summer holiday, feeling the salt on their skin, or into an emerald green garden bursting with life just after the rain.
Tubagus Salamudin Alamin
Tubagus Salamudin Alamin (b. South Tangerang, 1990) is a Pop Surrealist artist who began his artistic career in 2015. His works are known for their imaginative visual exploration, often featuring children as central figures to evoke nostalgia and memories of childhood. Through a surrealist approach, he delves into the connection between imagination and reality, creating worlds filled with symbolism and emotion.
Suanjaya Kencut
Suanjaya Kencut (b. Badung, 1994) is a visual artist working primarily with paintings, sculptures and installations. He derived his inspiration from the traditional Balinese art and modern art installations he grew up surrounded by. The dolls are the main subjects in Kencut’s work.
