2024
“a room of one’s own” (and then it got legs)
13 January - 8 February
anGie seah
Curated by Bruce Quek
“a room of one’s own” (and then it got legs) is anGie seah’s first solo exhibition in 7 years. Through social interventions, sculptures, videos, drawings and performance, anGie addresses society’s endemic crisis of empathy, and acts as commentary on the people and issues rendered invisible in society: How is it that, having an incredible capacity for empathy, humanity has built societies characterised by its very lack? The exhibition examines empathy through the notion of well-being, and how we deal with falling short of being well. This body of work explores wellness through pain and how we acknowledge, live with, adapt to, and overcome pain and physical incapacity. It is a quest to shape pain, to reinvent the everyday, to find awe and wonderment, and to be kind to ourselves and those around us.
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Untitled
Ang Song-Ming
Untitled gathers the bulk of Song-Ming Ang’s work since the pandemic, bringing together his creative output in various media, from art to music and writing. In the years after representing Singapore at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Ang immersed himself in studying modular synthesis and returned to making experimental music in earnest while exploring other avenues of art-making. At Untitled, Ang will launch Waves and Currents, a box set of material spanning his audio improvisations, drawings and videos inspired by electronic music, and a series of text-based works defined by their stark, repetitive insistence.
2023
Late Night Bookstore
5 - 28 January
Curated by Moses Tan
Artists: Sarishna Nair, Alysha Rahmat, Nadhirah Khalid, Mengju Lin, Michelle Tan, Vans, Valencia Tan, Alyshea Mo
Inspired by izakayas in Tokyo, clubs in Berlin and vintage shops in Bangkok, Late Night Bookstore is a re-imagined shop selling zines, handmade art objects, accessories and various merchandise!
An addition to after/party, Late Night Bookstore invites you to come browse, chill and buy some keepsakes in an installation, created and tucked in the storeroom of starch.
corporeal inten/se/ts
18 March
corporeal inten/se/ts is a presentation considering the body, affects and temporalities. In various disarrays, the works presented delineate the bodily, from acts of labour, to articulations of intents, while navigating various intensities.
Can You Show Me Your Drawer of Drawers
6 - 28 May
Nicholas See, Aaditya Sundar
Can You Show Me Your Drawer Of Drawers? is a year-long photography series consisting of intimate sessions with a culmination of masculine identities who are diverse in ethnicity, upbringing and social class in Singapore.Through the use of body landscaping and portraiture, the series displays a raw and unfiltered outlook on the lives of these subjects.
I Must, Be in A Good Place
3 - 17 June
Vanoha Chiam, Joshua Kon
I Must, Be in A Good Place Now features two bodies of works unpacking themes of vulnerability, intimacy and identity. Joshua Kon and Vanorha Chiam revisit concepts and explorations surrounding the body to uncover renewed understandings their practice and sense of self.
Rarely Touched Often Held is an honest documentation of intimacy and self-pleasure. Kon is joined by his coterie on a personal and platonic journey to negotiate their sexual curiosity. Through snapshots and staged photographs, Kon pens an almost self-indulgent love letter to their friendships and self-discovery since boyhood.
Last Night I Dreamt I Was Clean Again is an attempt to come to terms withevents of the artist’s past that shaped her own view of her body. The work explores the relationship that the artist has with her body, both its physical and emotional realms. The work displays a powerful and moving exploration of the human experience while offering a glimpse into the artist's journey of healing and self-acceptance.
The Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Photography was initiated in 2009 by the late Mr Kwek Leng Joo. The award was established to recognise photographic excellence among students at Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media. Every year, two outstanding graduates are selected by a panel based on their portfolio, proposal, and potential. Each graduate is awarded a sum of S$25,000 to support and kickstart their artistic career. I Must, Be in A Good Place Now is the 13th edition of the annual recipients showcase to celebrate the award and the milestone for the artists.
Sound as Resistance
5 August - 3 September
𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙, 𝙨𝙪𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚, 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙕𝙪𝙡 𝙈𝙖𝙝𝙢𝙤𝙙. 𝙃𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙙 ‘𝙌𝙪𝙞𝙚𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙤’ 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝙀𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝘼𝙨𝙞𝙖. 𝙃𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚, 𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙪𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡, 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙗𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 - Ian Woo
Soltu
9 September - 1 October
Elden Zachary
soltu is Elden Zachery’s debut show seeking to understand and grasp the idea of being free (‘soltu’, in Kristang). Shaped by cowboy bravado, wandering nomads and the romance of Kristang folklore, this body of work features the wielding strengths of Elden’s artistic universe and storytelling. A vivid fashion and art experience where Elden’s dabblings in movement, writing and sound are married to the fashion work that they have been trained in. Stories told are funnelled through narrative displays of passion through weekly Saturday shows — litterfall; mangrove of echoes; hadal birds; seabed nomad thanks you for your company — with guest performers aiding in breathing life into the space.
Nighthawks
5 - 28 January
Curated by Jeremy Sharma
Alvin Tang, Divaagar, Lai Yu Tong, farizi, XUE, Hun Ping
Presented by Bulanujung and Starch, and curated by Jeremy Sharma, Nighthawks is an exhibition straddling the notion of expanded cinema: or an event unfolding through fiction, atmosphere and space. It features an ensemble of artists whose diverse practices range from video and installation to performance and drawing.
Night skies: video art screening
5 - 28 January
Curated by Hidden Space (HK)
Artists: Yuen Nga Chi, Jess Lau Ching Wa, Hou Lam Tsui
Night Skies is a screening of three Hong Kong artists’ video works selected by Hidden Space.
Between them, these videos explore areas of personal concern and wider historical issues, amid both the pressure of societal structures and the vastness of the universe, while still finding an uplifting sensory beauty along the way.
In “Mui,” Yuen Nga Chi recounts moments of anxiety, and in the cathartic immolation of a taxidermied deer, finally releases the remains of the once-living creature into the earth and the night sky.
For her video poem “Sparkling Fountain,” Jess Lau Ching Wa uses stop-motion to record the unpicking of embroidered stars. As the labour of unknown seamstresses disintegrates into tiny flecks of thread, we see the universe expanding and disintegrating – all turning to dust, ourselves and our labours part of a cosmic whole.
Hou Lam Tsui’s video essay “Hard Tongue on Pillow” starts with the enigmatic condition ‘geographic tongue’ and goes on to question naming, mapping and boundaries as mechanisms of power. All the while a stuck-out tongue fills the frame and is subjected to endless streams of salt and sugar, exacerbating its metaphorical topography.
Second Hand Revelations
𝙄_𝙎_𝙇_𝘼_𝙉_𝘿_𝙎 x starch
10 June - 22 July
Zachary Chan, Nai Iyn Huii
𝙄_𝙎_𝙇_𝘼_𝙉_𝘿_𝙎 x starch is a collaborative effort between two independent platforms for artistic conversations. Situated between the start of an experiment and a fully realised work, the collaboration serves as a conduit for artists to develop their work in various orientations – positioning 𝙄_𝙎_𝙇_𝘼_𝙉_𝘿_𝙎 as a sandbox for conceptual inquiry that culminates in expanded presentations at starch. Over the next few months, this collaboration will play host to a series of contemporary explorations with a continued focus on community building and bridging of generations.
𝙎𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 is a presentation by Zachary Chan and Nai Iyn Huii looking at religiosity while interweaving personal narratives, historical anecdotes, religious texts, and environmental demonology. As a result of a residency with NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, the installation is an exploration of heterogenous manifestations of malevolent forces in doctrines. Using soft sculptures that emanate child-like naivety, the installation alludes to the porous divide between the everyday and the spiritual.
prompts, nudges and whispers.
Tremors
𝙄_𝙎_𝙇_𝘼_𝙉_𝘿_𝙎 x starch
18 August - 29 September
Ryan Lim Zi Yi
𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘴 is the fourth chapter of the 𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 series. 𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 is an ongoing multi-chapter series that meditates on discomfort and disruption within the process of change.
For this chapter, 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘴 will turn towards the phenomenon of discomfort and disruption within Singapore, presenting an installation that will draw from records of tremors documented in Singapore. These tremors are often a result of external occurrences of earthquakes, particularly from neighbouring regions like Sumatra, Indonesia but they could also result from other occurrences. Using collections on tremors documented in written articles, video footage and timelines over the past years, this installation responds to these tremors as something that is so recognisable yet so unfamiliar. In addition, this presentation will also include programmes such as artist talks, tours and a book launch. Details will be released over the next few weeks.
I'll see you in my dreams
𝙄_𝙎_𝙇_𝘼_𝙉_𝘿_𝙎 x starch
14 October - 26 November
Susie Wong
Continuing the coconut tree as a thematic motif in Susie’s work, this work appropriates imageries from popular films, as well as from colonial paintings, some of which are now on display at the National Gallery Singapore. Wherever the trees appear, they frame every scene as a witness to the place and the stories.
The coconut trees are depicted differently. They may be strange, odd, or even familiar, sometimes drawn from the artist’s memory, sometimes constructed following oral descriptions by those who had actually been there, seen them, or perhaps from old botanical texts. These cutouts are faithfully referenced from these paintings, many of which are entitled A View Of. This suggests “I am here, surveying this land that lies before me.” These are the documentary records of travelling painters/illustrators of past centuries — fresh forays into a new land — whether it is with a curious wonder at the strange Orient, or with an eye on possibilities of commerce, that is, to survey, to conquer, to possess. After all, “To travel is to possess the world.” (Burton Holmes, 1917, in Paramount-Burton Holmes Travel Pictures poster).
This 2-screen video presentation is version 3 of I miss you so much. From clips taken from documentary films by Charles Chauvel in 1933 to Apocalypse Now by Francis F. Coppola in 1979, coconut trees appear, standing as sentinels or witnesses over illicit acts
Soltu
11 - 26 November
Salty Ng Xi Jie
Curated by Kimberly Shen
across the way gathers the constellations of Salty Xi Jie Ng’s interdimensional practice and presents her long-term body of work as Baibai Research Group, a transdisciplinary lab that encompasses spirit studies embedded in the everyday vernacular. The exhibition unfolds as portals between realms, in a conveyance of whispers and creative manifestations that reverberate through the lush, mystical landscapes of the living and the dearly departed. In this multiverse, we are invited by the artist to engage in acts of remembrance, foregrounded by her research experiments with the Ancestor Dream Visitation Repository and her ongoing relationship with religious good merchant Ban Kah Hiang, and activated as performances, rituals, and intimate encounters through individual and collective journeys across the cosmos.
2022
At Dusk, We Tread the Earth
12 to 27 February
At Dusk, We Tread the Earth is a duo show by Carmen Ceniga Prado and
Arabelle Zhuang.
Inspired by the Sanskrit word “godhūli”, which refers to the beautiful illumination of dust particles sweeping into the air as grazing cows return home at sunset, At Dusk, We Tread the Earth denotes an imagery of vastness and stillness, where earth and sky meet at the horizon.
Nodes of Silence
10 - 31 March
Nodes of Silence is a group show curated by R. Yashini featuring Amrita Chandradas, Daniel Chong, Chok Si Xuan, Rafi Abdullah in collaboration with Tristan Lim and Studio Darius Ou, Yen Phang and Zarina Muhammad.
Nodes of Silence began by exploring various degrees of silence and collaborating with differently abled communities. During the early onset of Covid-19, the society shared a universal shift. While we endeavoured to adapt the disabled communities experienced their own set of challenges. With the reality of accessibility in the field of exhibition-making, this project aims to reshape the perception around exhibition-making for the differently abled. Anchoring on the prevailing interest in silence and shared cause of inclusivity, hearts were opened, minds remain teachable and this exhibition is a result of curiosity, care, awareness and compassion.
An uncanny assortment of miscellaneous objects
4 to 26 June 2022
Curated by Jaxton Su and Nien-Ting Chen
Artists: DAS SAD, Desiree Tham, Kevin Fee, Meng-Hsin Shih, Ryan Benjamin Lee, Shao-Ying Huang, Sian-Jie Ye, Wilfred Lim, Ya-wen Tang, Yu-Cheng Hsieh
𝓐𝓷 𝓾𝓷𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓷𝔂 𝓪𝓼𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓬𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓮𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓸𝓫𝓳𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓼 is an international artist exchange
exhibition initiated by independent curators Nien-Ting Chen (Taiwan) and Jaxton Su (Singapore), bringing an assortment of random objects to the fore, in an attempt to discuss the imperative of current issues with the peculiarity of specific commodities. In light of the ubiquity of objects as multi-faceted constituents of culture, ten groups of young artists were invited to create new works based on chosen objects from their everyday life, with the aim to utilise cross-
cultural observation and examination of perspectives to construct a flourishing and experimental contemporary art platform between Singapore and Taiwan.
Thresholds of Being
Curated by Yeo Xuan and Sheryl Gwee
Artists: Elizabeth Xu, Joel Seow, Anya Stern, Celine Lam, Sheryl Gwee, Yeo Xuan, Angelica Ong, Aw Ker Wey
𝓣𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓵𝓭𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓑𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓰 stages a meditative inquiry into what it means to be caught in the indeterminate spaces between established structures of thought, feeling, and experience. The show features eight young artists, with works across drawing, painting, video installation, photography, and animation.
We will be opening on 6 August, 5-9pm. There will be refreshments -- no fancy canapé and wine, but we will have pizza and cider! Xuan and Sheryl will also be giving a curators’ talk at 7pm, with Alfonse Chiu moderating.
The show runs from 6 August to 27 August, Thursdays to Sundays, 12-8pm, and Mondays to Wednesdays by appointment only.
On Earth as it is in Water
9 - 30 October
Kin Leonn and Sean Gwee
Oᑎ EᗩᖇTᕼ ᗩᔕ IT Iᔕ Iᑎ ᗯᗩTEᖇ
A place created and a funny little film
By Kin Leonn and Sean Gwee
On Earth as it is in Water
8 - 31 December
Curated by Moses Tan
Artists: Firdaus Sani, Michelle Tan, Natalina Pereira, Nelly Tan, Susanna Tan, Susie Wong, Ruby Jayaseelan with Irfan Kasban and Eric Lee
𝘈 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 is a group show looking at various ideas of grief and mourning. From personal notions of heartbreak to collective, communal modes of grief, the show premises on re-thinking these affects and centering them in acts of healing.
Chan Davies Art Prize 2021: syn-
13 January to 2 February
Bridging the mechanical with the organic, the activated with the inert, and systems with chance, syn- presents the prize-winning works for academic excellence in research and practice of LASALLE Alumni Danial Shafiq (BA) and Victoria Hertel (MA). Both artists explore new materialities through a shared interest in the vitality of objects encountered in space. Victoria has been invested in the de- and refamiliarization of materials as functions of disruption to our routinized perception of objects, addressing ideas of unsettlement as perspective shifting happenstance. Danial delves into the interaction between humans and objects by studying their form and function, and displacing technology as a means for improvisation and accentuation of the inconspicuous in this network. Together, their works respond to the site and architecture of the gallery in ways that are both sensorial and interconnected.
An initiative by Angie Chan and Nick Davies, the Chan-Davies Art Prize was launched exclusively for all final year students of LASALLE’s BA(Hons) Fine Arts Programme. In 2016, the prize expanded to include MA Fine Arts students. The prize aims to encourage artists in their early career with financial support and exposure.
ext2:open studios
27/28/29 May 2022
ext2: open studios is a project allowing artists to experiment with starch as a studio space.
Featuring 4 practitioners who have been given full access to starch to play and experiment in the space, we invite audiences to come in to see their developments in the final weekend!
moulding, grazing, tampering, shifting
8 July - 31 July 2022
Artists: Dylan Chan, Farizi Noorfauzi, Le Kinh Dien, Ryan Lim Zi Yi, Fei Pan
𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 is a group show featuring 5 young artists. Using Sara Ahmed’s happy objects as a prelude, the show looks at various ways and agencies wherein artists and audience members function within an artistic space.
“We are moved by things. And in being moved, we make things.”
In Happy Objects, Ahmed describes the relationship people have with objects. And while she discusses the concept of happiness as an affective emotion, 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 looks at affect on a broader spectrum. The artists in the show propose ways of orientating around various arrays, and disarrays. From common objects to digital manipulation, 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 prompts, nudges and whispers.
/fam'
3 September - 2 October
Alyshea Mo, Myo Thet Hnin, Sarishna Nair, Valencia Tan
Starch presents ‘/fam’, a group show that reflects on our notions of kinship, chosen families and the notion of belonging. Working with four artists, ‘/fam’ expands on their various practices, while also spotlighting the varied support structures and systems we create for ourselves.
/fam' is a group show organised in collaboration with Grey Projects under Post Repeal: Let's Think About Us! Taking on a different approach to our Queer Show this year, Grey Projects transforms into a community space, not only for art or culture exchange but one for gathering, mutual support and collective learning. Working with various self-organised practices of queer artists and collectives based in Singapore, we have put together an exciting queer programme over the months of September to November 2022.
On Earth as it is in Water
5 - 27 November
Aki Hassan, Nina Djekic, Weixin Quek Chong
As we navigate the liminal spaces between the abstract and the visceral, the imagined and embodied, how do we hone our attention and generosity towards one another?
What intimacies do we desire to partake in, what vocabularies do we imagine embodying?
Pushing and probing at the bounds of translation, legibility and connection across bodies, species and ontologies, like letters brings together the practices of Aki Hassan ( @akihassans ), Nina Djekić ( @ninadjeki )and Weixin Quek Chong ( @jadeite.bat ).
With a shared understanding of language as a visceral and affectual medium, the artists speak to each other through a variety of forms; text, video, sculpture and movement.
The motif of the textual narrative, both present and implied, runs through this gathering of new works; an underlying conversation layering forms, textures, voices and images like the crunching, crumbling, composting detritus of a forest floor.
2021
Can we all just hug again?
15 December to 2 January
Can we all hug again? is a duo show by Alysha Rahmat Shah and Nurisabella Andrews. As a way to end off the year, and perhaps the year before, the show is a proposal by the artists.
A proposal to ask that you dance, sing, and laugh. A proposal to heal, to believe, and to sleep. Can we all hug again invites you to come enjoy a warm cup of chai, talk, make, and recuperate.
A communal space accompanies an exhibition of works occupying the two levels within starch. Can we all hug again invites you into a warm, assuring embrace.
Inheritance of parts
15 October to 7 November
Something is amiss. This feeling… like grief. Hanging on like wet cloth. A distant wind. Silent lightning. Thunder rumbling. Stomach sinking. The horizon reveals itself in parting clouds. Broken lines leading to nowhere. Have I always felt like I was drowning?
“Don’t rock the boat” they said.
Inheritance of parts is a group show inspired by Kuo Pao Kun’s Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral featuring Irfan Kasban, Li Yan Loong, Marcia Ong, Moses Tan, Rosemainy Buang, and Zachary Chan.
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Across a Small Distance
9 September to 11 September
𝘈𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘢 𝘚𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 is a work-in-progress by Chew Shaw En & Jevon Chandra about the nature of landing, receiving and transmission. Through a sequence of movements and activities, the work explores the textures of communication in small settings: the things too near to touch, misunderstandings too slight to notice, tiny truths too inconvenient to say.
Supported by Feelers and hosted by starch, the piece’s first showing is presented as a work-in-progress, followed by a short discussion after.
Recast
19 June to 10 July 2021
Recast presents recent works by Anthony Chin and Green Zeng, two artists who interrogate historiographies of Singapore and the region through their multidisciplinary practices.
Their second collaborative exhibition, Recast focuses on little-known local and regional histories through the mediums of sculptural installation and video, revealing otherwise unacknowledged structures of power in the colonial and post-colonial eras.
Public Dreams, Private Myths
6 March to 30 March 2021
Taking cues from a quote by Joseph Campbell, "Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths”, Public Dreams, Private Myths is a group show by Cheong Yew Mun, Kar-men Cheng and Paul Hurley.
As recent graduates of the same MA Fine Arts programme at LASALLE College of the Arts, the three developed their practices closely with one another. In this presentation, they reflect on their intimate knowledge of each others’ work and begin a conversation that bleeds through their respective areas of inquiry, forming new meanings within familiar ideas.
Something Similar
13 November to 5 December
The digital world, smartphones and social media have become a fundamental part of our lives today. With this shift, photography has evolved to become a form of communication where visuals are used to interact with one another in lieu of text, at the same time allowing for further interpretations of the images themselves as an artistic form. In the same vein, Chua Chye Teck and Liu Liling have maintained an image-based correspondence through social messaging platforms and this project is a result of these dialogues as an invitation to rethink their relationship with photography and image-making today.
painted lines, covered plains
18 September to 3 October
painted lines, covered plains is a duo show by Sufian Samsiyar and Victoria Tan. Using various vestiges of construction sites, showrooms and locales within Singapore, the works become manifestations of these transitions, temporal ruins and desires. A combination of photographic works and site-specific installation, painted lines, covered plains proposes detached views of the constant impermanent landscape of Singapore.
CYTTDBM&CF?
17 July to 7 August 2021
Maybe; if the Milo was really diluted, like the way my mum used to make it in the mornings before school, and I had to wait till the last minute to chug it so it would be cool enough. I’m not sure if it’d be easier or harder to differentiate if it was a latte, like the kind I would have with my friend after classes at school. But if it was like the 3 cups of black kopi o kosong that my grandpa would have everyday while he peered at his newspaper through the glasses on the bridge of his nose, I think I would know. I think I could tell the difference.
6 artists contend with what it means to be intimate, with oneself, with each other, and the world around them. Whether through the quickest of glances or intensive introspection, those moments of connection lie waiting to be discovered, and more than that, appreciated.
Splinter
10 April to 30 April 2021
The body and city are entangled and intertwined, each holding influence and power over the other. Cities shape their lines and function around the bodies that inhabit them. The body, in turn, adapts itself and carves the continuous transformation of a city. In the process of mutual growth, still, there are bodies that disrupt the organized planning of a city. In the eyes of the state, these splintering are foreign objects that must be tamed, if not eradicated.
Splinter showcases 11 artists exploring the disruption of the established practices and behaviours of society. In affirming their own presence, these splinters become grafts that can restore the body and revitalize the city. They expand the possibilities of the city beyond the limits of what is known and recognised. In Splinter, we see how the undesirable nurtures our bodies and allow us to reimagine what more life in a city can become.
