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OCT-NOV 2020
SHOOTING HOME YOUTH AWARDS CLASS OF 2019 EXHIBITION
Lower Gallery & Courtyard
Featuring works by the 11 photographers from Objectifs’ young photographers developmental programme. Includes Arielmegan Tan, Beverly Chew Xiu Qi, Toa Li Ting (Ines), Wong Cai Jie, J, Lee Jia Ying, Siew Png Sim, Suhani Gupta, Li Wanjie, Goh Lin Yuan, Nur Hadziqah and Kiat Tan Wei Jie. Mentored by Grace Baey, Joseph Nair, Juliana Tan and Nurul Huda Rashid.
AUG-OCT 2020
AN EDIFICE W/O
Lower Gallery
an edifice w/o spotlights two young artists — Dylan Chan and Rifqi Amirul Rosli, featuring all-new works in the mediums of photography, print and sculpture, curated by Kamiliah Bahdar. The exhibition title is taken from the preface of House of Incest by Anais Nin, which reads: All that I know is contained in this book written without witness, an edifice without dimension, a city hanging in the sky. The phrase captures something of the in-between — of things there yet formless, physical yet elusive, with edges soft and penetrable, real and imagined — that both artists contemplate in their works.
FEB-MAR 2020
LONGING AND BELONGING
Lower Gallery
To know Singapore is to know how its natural environment, precincts and iconic structures change before its people are ready to bid them goodbye. It is to recognise that change is the only constant in a tiny and ambitious nation. It is to feel a semblance of pride when gazing upon the latest attraction in town, while also feeling a pang of nostalgia for what was there before.
Singaporean photographer Wee Teck Hian has explored many corners of the island in more than two decades as a photographer specialising in panoramic black-and-white photography. He has documented many slices of Singapore’s history while working at a newspaper, and through his passion projects. Longing and Belonging presents his photographs documenting the transformation of various spaces in Singapore, including Marina Bay, the former Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) railway tracks, and the Central Catchment Nature Reserve. The images explore what it means to belong to a community and country that is ever changing, and will resonate with anyone who has ever pondered the loss of something familiar.
Press coverage:
Business Times – Snapshots of Yesteryear
Singapore Art Gallery Guide – Longing and Belonging