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It is with great pride and joy that I have been given the opportunity to stage the very first Southeast Asia platform at the tenth edition of the Florence Biennale. 

For ten years, I have steadfastly sought to work with exciting Asian artists who work with such creative fervour to deliver world class exhibitions, setting off a truly impressed audience to talk about their shows for years to come. I have witnessed the arts scene in the region flourish, as economies develop and strengthen. Southeast Asian Cotemporary Art has become a balm for our aggravated souls, a portal for social commentaries, as it leads us to face the stark realities that socio-economic progress has delivered to our very doorsteps.

The theme for the Biennale is particularly fitting, Art and the City – as the collective of artists we invited to join the project all hail from frantic Asian metropoles in varied…