Art Stage Singapore: 26-28 JAN 2018
What did I capture and what did I remember? I have a few images of the event.
Which one is real artwork? Images in my iPhone forever or objects in convention centre temporary?
Daily Commute to Campus
Reading the City: Building, Structure and Voice
What intrigues you in Singapore?
The way green and concrete are mixed in a building
Building window structure and the way windows are opened
Laundry dry hanger structure outside of a window
Colors of building
City under construction
*The voice in metro, “If you see any suspicious looking person or articles, please ….”
This photos are from the journey to the projector to see a movie. I have taken photos that focus on the structure of the buildings. So my photos are concentrated on the buildings and roads.
It is quite interesting for me that there are many open type, distinctive structures without windows. In Seoul, there are all enclosed type buildings because of the 4 seasons weather. And Korean construction companies decide to paint general color on the building to consider the tastes of all residents. I’m surprised that buildings are very colorful and sometimes have unexpected color combinations here. I guess it would be because the weather in Singapore is really warm and good .
The thing that always intrigues me is the voice in metro about the suspicious things. I’m wondering what suspicious looking persons or articles are.
Weekly exhibition review : Songs of a Beached Whale
Wilfred Lim lived and grew up in a small fishing village, Pengerang, southern Malaysia. He graduated from NTU, School of Art, Design and Media. The exhibition “Songs of a Beached Whale”, his first solo exhibition, is held in the arts house. I wrote the review after attending the artist talk on Saturday, 3th February.
His photography captures landscape of the fishing village destroyed due to the construction of an oil refinery . The residents who had lived in the village were forced to move out after they got the red note from government. They left the houses where had their own family identities and history. He achieved the empty house with red note on the front wall. Also he photographed the village landscape in theatrical ways, with the objects that he brought from abandoned house or his brother and himself. He said the he tried to make people know about what happened.
He used photograph as a tool to disclose the reality and to miss and remember the disappeared village, home. Someone asked him if he has any plan to photograph new places where the village residents moved in. And he answered that although they are trying to fill new houses with their identities, he doesn’t want to take a photograph of it. He said “That’s not what I want to see.” He choose the speed of the mechanical production to keep up with the speed of the mechanical destruction.
