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Singaporean artist Jahan Loh is set to release a \u201cPOSTCARDS FROM SPACE \u5929\u5c71\u661f::KEPLER-22B\u201d toy on August 8
\nThe figure is inspired by a painting included in Loh\u2019s exhibition of the same name, staged at Le Freeport in Chengdu last fall<\/p>\n
A follow up to his immersive, interplanetary-inspired POSTCARDS FROM SPACE<\/a> in Chengdu last fall, Singaporean artist Jahan Loh<\/a> is taking his iconic astronauts off the canvas in a new toy.<\/p>\n The figures are based on one of his large-scale paintings displayed at Le Freeport, which explored the concept of \u201cinterplanetary diaspora.\u201d Here, Loh imagines a future where humans inhabit exoplanets or other celestial bodies. The body of work is rendered through a blend of\u00a0 Eastern iconography, pop culture motifs, and sci-fi, making for unsettlingly surreal, digital-like compositions.\n<\/p>\n Titled after the fictional celestial body, KEPLER-22B, the toy features a girl-boy astronaut duo donning pink and white spacesuits with embroidered patterns blooming across the panels. The two figures stand, hand-in-hand, with what appears to be a lantern at their center.\n<\/p>\n Created in collaboration with XMASTERPIECE, each polystone sculpture is meticulously crafted, hand-painted and assembled by a team of artisans. The \u201cPOSTCARDS FROM SPACE \u5929\u5c71\u661f::KEPLER-22B\u201d toy will be available for purchase starting August 8. Head to CONT9CT\u2019s website<\/a> to pre-register now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary Singaporean artist Jahan Loh is set to release a \u201cPOSTCARDS FROM SPACE \u5929\u5c71\u661f::KEPLER-22B\u201d toy on August 8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-53874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}