Documentary Photographic Projects

The Life of Things exhibition can essentially be broken down into three different parts:

1) Subliminal City:

UuDam Tran Nguyen, Serpent’s Tails Lim Sokchanlina, Urban Street Night Club, Wrapped Future, National Road Number 5

2) Relics:

Phan Thao-Nguyen, Tropical Siesta, Education of a Poet Sarker Protick, Exodus Sim Chi Yin, One Day We’ll Understand

3) Museum of Modern Sympathy:

Kevin Fee, Misfortunes of Read more →

KINDRED ARTISTS:

Lavender Chang, Unconsciousness: Consciousness (2013)

Lavender Chang is a Taiwanese born conceptual photographer who now works and lives in Singapore. Her works have been exhibited at multiple shows, such as the International Orange Photo Festival in 2010, China, Singapore Art Museum, Mizuma Gallery and Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York in 2014. 

She has also won Read more →

“The Life of Things” is an art exhibition hosted at the Esplanade, Singapore, conveying the connection people have with objects and places.  It also portrays how materialistic things with physical attributes have symbolic qualities that represent abstract ideas, signal emotion or simple a connection that draws people to the items.

Last weekend, I attended this exhibition (in the hopes to gain Read more →

Sleep

\ ˈslēp \

A condition of body and mind which typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the nervous system is inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles relaxed, and consciousness practically suspended.

When consciousness is taken away, it allows people to be in their most natural state. Once fully asleep, the ability to be perceptive or aware of their surroundings and Read more →

This is a presentation of artists I was inspired by from a few weeks ago, in relation to the individual, local and global situations/issues I was exploring at that point.

Individual: Leonardo Magrelli, Meerror

Local: Mustafa Abdulaziz, Water

Global: Adam Birkan, All That Glitters

The Oceanic at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore

The second time I went to The Oceanic exhibition during Singapore Art Week was very beneficial as it allowed me to better understand the work there. I feel that the amount of projects exhibited were just right; just enough for one to digest and think about without being Read more →

The Oceanic: A Voyage Into The Geopolitical And Biophysical Of The Pacific

The Oceanic is an exhibition that features contributions by 12 artists, presenting works that propose an urgency of looking at the ocean as a crucial aspect of our conversations surrounding the environment.

“Why should communities who only contribute one per cent of the global footprint be among the first ones Read more →

Theatre of Reality: Solo Exhibition of Chou Ching-Hui Venue: Deck

I attended Chou’s talk titled Documentary as Contemporary Art on 30th January, where he talked about the three photographic series he had on show at DECK and his process: Out of the Shadows (1993-1995), Fined Taipei (ongoing), and Animal Farm (2014).

Trained as a photojournalist, Chou’s works revolve around his interest and curiosity in Read more →