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?
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.
