Gajah Gallery Singapore presents Days That Slip Away Untouched, a solo exhibition by Indonesian artist Uji “Hahan” Handoko Eko Saputro. Following its debut in Jakarta, the exhibition continues Hahan’s investigation into the shifting relationship between physical reality and its digital mediation.
Working across painting, sculpture, and sound, Hahan examines how perception and meaning are conditioned within digitally mediated environments. His work probes the terms by which images and experiences are encountered, tracing how distinctions between the real, the constructed, and the circulated are produced, and how authenticity is negotiated in their wake.
In contrast to the immediacy of digital systems, Hahan’s practice emphasises slowness and material engagement. Developed in close dialogue with the Ace House collective and his studio artisans, the works emerge through what he describes as an “aesthetic kinship”, a process rooted in shared labour and collective exchange. Across the exhibition, Hahan appropriates imagery from works by Raden Saleh, Tomás Sánchez, and Walter Spies, using these references to reflect on how knowledge, power, and ways of seeing have shaped historical narratives. In doing so, the works draw attention to the instability of images in an era governed by algorithmic visibility, where depth and context risk being flattened.
Within these compositions, moments of disruption appear through hybrid figures and altered landscapes, introducing a sense of dissonance that unsettles familiar visual frameworks. These gestures operate as subtle “glitches”, interrupting dominant modes of representation and opening up alternative ways of seeing and understanding.
The exhibition title, Days That Slip Away Untouched, speaks to an awareness of time that often passes without full attention. Across his practice, Hahan foregrounds attentiveness —to history, process, and everyday experience— as a means of resisting this condition. Here, authenticity is approached as something continually negotiated within the conditions of contemporary life.
