Art Imitates Life

MANDY EL-SAYEGH: DISPERSAL LEHMANN MAUPIN UNTIL AUGUST 23 London-based Malaysian artist Mandy El-Sayegh’s first solo exhibition in Asia encompasses paintings, sculptures and installations incorporating diverse materials from latex to newspaper clippings. Her work addresses the personal, societal and cultural systems by which we conduct our lives, from global finance to mass media. lehmannmaupin.com SINGING THE BODY ELECTRIC DAVID ZWIRNER UNTIL AUGUST 10 Taking its title from Walt Whitman’s poem “I Sing The Body Electric”, this exhibition explores ideas of the body and desire. Among the artists featured are German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, the late American conceptual artist Félix González-Torres and Aaajiao, a Mainland Chinese activist and multimedia artist. davidzwirner.com MADSAKI: IF I HAD A DREAM PERROTIN UNTIL AUGUST 17 Andy Warhol and classic Hong Kong cinema might seem like an unlikely pair of influences, but these are exactly what inspired Japanese-American…