From 24 Sep to 2 Nov 2024, Objectifs’ new Residency Space (located in our Annexe) welcomes its first group of five women artists-in-residence for our annual Women in Film & Photography programme.
Fri 1 Nov, 4.30pm – 8.30pm | Objectifs Residency Space
Open Studio with Women in Film & Photography Artists-in-Residence
Join us at the Open Studio for a chance to interact with the artists and find out about their works and processes! Free admission, no registration required.
Cynthia Delaney Suwito is a visual artist who explores the subjects of everyday objects and experiences. Using them as her material, she uses observational humour to examine daily phenomena such as the omnipresence of instant noodles, the misfortunes of plastic bags, the misuse of clothes pegs, and the perpetual turning of toilet paper rolls. Her work provides space for everyday objects to challenge their own mundanity. Taking various forms, many of her works are site-specific interactive sculptures and installations.
Born in Indonesia and based in Singapore, Cynthia completed her Bachelor in Fine Arts with First Class Honours at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. Cynthia was featured on BBC Asia and Channel News Asia, and was in the 2017 FORBES 30 under 30 Asia in the Arts. She has exhibited at Bandung Contemporary Art Award Assemblage, 2019, in Indonesia, and at Superfluidity: The Parallel Universes Daily Mimicry, 2022, in Taipei. In Singapore, Cynthia had a solo presentation, while we wait, in 2020, and exhibited at Hawker! Hawker! in 2021, as well as the Singapore International Photography Festival in 2022.
With a practice that involves collecting inspiration from her surroundings, and which has recently expanded from collecting objects to photographs, Cynthia will continue working on her creation of a photographic archive of objects that have been with her through her many homes during the residency. She will also explore sculptural forms of presentation for these images, transforming the digitalised objects back into physical forms. Combining and continuing 2 of her past projects, Things/Stuff/Objects and Belonging, she hopes to further delve into the memories and sentimental nature that material possessions can contain and convey.
Deanna and Mary will be working together as a collective for the residency.
Deanna Ng (b.1976) is an independent photographer and arts educator who is interested in documenting fragments of memory found in a rapidly changing urban landscape that she calls home – Singapore.
In 2009, her work with Lien Foundation on end-of-life issues left an indelible mark on her. She questions how grief becomes part of our life and how we contain it. Having exhibited extensively in Japan, Turkey, Iceland and Singapore, she continues to work on several projects that examine not only her own memories, but also of those who are around her.
Mary Bernadette Lee is based as an artist in Singapore. Her artistic practice takes the phenomenological approach investigating relationships between body, architecture and space, and psychological states relating to Self, Identity and Home. This relational dialectics between the physiological and the psychological is expressed through her works that foreground the architecture of her as a person and an artist.
During their residency, Deanna and Mary will be working on their collective project, Dear You (working title). Dear You is a dialogue between Mary and Deanna in relation to their unique ways of processing grief through letter writing, drawings, and photographs. Through such means of navigation, they found commonalities in their thematic explorations in transience, antinomies, preservation and memories. Dear You wishes to address the different manifestations of grief and how both artists can find hope through it. It will examine and reflect on their deeply personal ways of dealing with grief, in hopes that by sharing about grief openly, it will help others to process their pain.
As the project responds to memorabilia, photographs, and documentation of their loved ones that both artists have collected throughout their lifetime, their residency will also examine such motivations for collecting and keeping.
Kathy Anne Lim (b.1991) is a photographer & visual artist based in Singapore. Her conceptual documentary work focuses on themes of memory and displacement — contents of which mix absolute certainty and misty ephemerality. She studied Visual Communication (Dip) at Temasek Polytechnic Singapore and Photography (BA Hons) at London College of Communication, University of Arts London.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (2019), Bow Arts, London (2019), Royal Photographic Society—Women In Photography, UK (2019), Singapore International Photography Festival (2020), Sharjah Art Foundation (2021), Photoville, Brooklyn NYC (2022), Kranj Foto Festival (2022) and Katmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok (2023). She has previously worked as a picture editor and researcher at Forward, Bookmark Content (WPP) and The Guardian. Parallel to her practice, she teaches as an adjunct lecturer at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.
Kathy Anne will be working on a project entitled Sight Unseen (working title) during her residency. Bringing the topic of the global climate crisis closer to local contexts, her explorations will look at how image-based new media communication could implement the use of combined data visualisations to communicate factual or scientific data unseen to the naked eye. She aims to develop an imaging system for Sight Unseen, which explores the machine-mediated perception of the urban landscape, merging data points of atmospheric conditions. As a starting point, the project will focus on the surrounding residency space, between the Bugis and Bencoolen districts.
Peng is a freelance animator, illustrator, and artist based in Singapore. With a background in 2D digital animation, her playful experimentations with traditional mediums include animating with crayons and marker on paper. Peng draws inspiration from the stories around her, romanticizing emotions and experiences with flat, bright and simple colours. She wants to continue exploring mediums and ways to express herself, hoping to find a balance between her love for both analogue and digital practices.
During her residency, Peng will be working on an ongoing project entitled ‘Beginnings & Ends’. Documenting the repeated cycles of starts and ends that she has observed and experienced in daily life, her explorations will feature a series of eponymous illustrations. Her project hopes to capture the brave choices people make in creating new memories even while knowing the process might come with inevitable pain.