Curator Open Call 2024 Recipient: Lenette Lua
Curator Open Call is part of Objectifs’ ongoing efforts to to broaden perspectives by supporting curatorial research and innovative ways of presenting image-based work. The programme supports the realisation of a curatorial proposal for an exhibition in the Chapel Gallery by providing professional and financial support. The exhibition will be presented in January 2025 during Singapore Art Week.
The awardee was selected by the following selection panel, in addition to the team at Objectifs:
- Jason Wee, Artist-writer-curator, and the programme’s mentor
- Bridget Tracy Tan, Director for the Art Galleries and the Institute of Southeast Asian Arts at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
The winning proposal is by Lenette Lua, who will work towards an exhibition which will take place in the Objectifs Chapel Gallery in January 2025.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Lenette Lua is a practice-led researcher and curator whose interests delve into reconciling the contested intersections of political, economic, and socio-cultural spheres through her curatorial work. While at the Royal College of Art in London, she initiated the long-term curatorial project ‘Fungi Initiative, exploring institutional collaborations via participatory artist-led workshops.
About the programme mentor
Jason Wee
Jason Wee is an artist and a writer. He’s the author of four poetry books, most recently From A (Undesirable) Diary and the Gaudy Boy Poetry Prize finalist In Short, Future Now. His art is recently seen in The Institutum, the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Angkor Photo Festival, and the upcoming Changwon Sculpture Biennale. He is the 2023 Asymmetry Foundation Scholar and a 2024 Mercator Artist Fellow at Humboldt University Berlin. Curated projects include: The Measure of Our Dwelling: Singapore as Unhomed (ifa Berlin & Stuttgart, 2015), Stories We Tell To Scare Ourselves (MOCA Taipei, 2019), Koh Nguang How: The Past & Coming Melt (Grey Projects, 2019), Walk Walk Don’t Run (islandwide Singapore, 2021 & 2023).