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Just Another Day in Paradise, the first solo exhibition of Nathan James in Asia. The exhibition features a range of paintings that appropriate, remake and twist the pin-up images often associated with kitsch, and fascinating sketches showing his characteristic dark humour.

Nathan James often employs opposing ideas to bring up a sense of anxiety and humour. By combining heterogeneous visual elements into a montage of sorts, his new body of work is at once intriguing and disturbing, grotesque and familiar. These supposedly-sexy vintage pin-ups appear to have misshapen cartoonish faces, …