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“Can art really illuminate hope in the world?” This question lies at the heart of Sylvia Ong’s latest series of paintings. In her debut exhibition at Almine Rech, the self-taught artist collaborates with composer Joanna Bieńkowska, who uses the moniker YANA, to contend with whether art can make an impact in our tumultuous world.

With a background in cinematography, performing arts, theater, and music, Ong traverses a multitude of artistic genres to create vignettes of lyrical expressionism that harmonize color and texture with sound. Music and its strong ties to her emotions had been an …