NOV-DEC 2017
AS THEY GROW OLDER AND WISER
Chapel Gallery
As They Grow Older and Wiser is a photographic series and installation work by Singaporean artist Ang Song Nian, presented as part of the artist’s participation in the Bangkok University Gallery’s Artist-in-Residence programme in August 2016. At the heart of the exhibition is Everything Can Be Measured (2016). This site-specific work comprises six installations created as a response to the artist’s observation on the methods of control instrumented in ways which potted plants, as well as trees – young and old — are being manipulated to fit into the urban landscape of growing cities. The titular work debuts a series of photographic images in which the artist re-presents the controlled environment of plant nurseries found in the Ongkharak district of Nakhon Nayok in Bangkok.

SEP 2017
SUPERHERO ME: WHO IS COMING TO DINNER?
Chapel Gallery
Gatherings are at the heart of this art lab, where plates of art serve up an invitation to create, question and work with others from all walks of life. On our journey towards an inclusive society, we have realised inclusion – very much like cooking – has no fixed formula. It is always in-the-works, driven by a persistent courage and effort to reach out to others different from us. Over the past few months, children from the Cerebral Palsy Alliance School, MINDS Lee Kong Chian Gardens School, AWWA Kindle Garden and neurodiverse multidisciplinary collective, Superhero Me’s regular Saturday group have created artworks that will help transform the Chapel Gallery into a dinner party!

© Tom White

SEP 2017
RHETORICAL TERRITORIES & WHO CARES?
Lower Gallery
In Rhetorical Territories, Tom White visualises the negotiation of space in Waterloo Centre, a public housing in Singapore where residents carry out their daily lives, navigate codes of behaviour, respect each other’s rights and manifest a modern day “kampong spirit”. In Who Cares?, Kelvin Lim examines who the real caregivers are for Singapore’s senior citizens. Both photographers produced their work as part of the Exactly Foundation residency.

AUG 2017
TILL WE MEET AGAIN – WHAT TO KEEP? & MUTE
Lower Gallery
Lau Eng Seng has been documenting Rochor Centre, a nearly 40-years old high-rise mixed-use complex. In 2011, it was announced that Rochor Centre would be demolished to make way for the new North-South Expressway. Here, he shares its “packing up”, during which residents must decide on what to keep and what to throw out. In Mute, Chia Aik Beng shares a personal take on Singapore’s Little Japan (1860s to 1945). With erased buildings and only traces of material evidence, he explores its possible history. Both photographers produced their work as part of the Exactly Foundation residency.

AUG 2017
FUN WITH FOLEY
Courtyard
Experience the magic of Foley by creating your own sound effects to accompany Singapore short films by Kirsten Tan, Jerrold Chong and Michael Kam! Guided by sound designers Lim Ting Li and Filipe Paszkiewicz, you’ll be getting hands-on with some of the tips and tricks that Foley sound artists use to bring a film to life. Part of Singapore Night Festival.

By Kevin WY Lee

JULY 2017
NORTHEAST HINTERLAND
Lower Gallery
Northeast Hinterland is the Exactly Foundation’s first resident artist Kevin WY Lee’s visual response to land custodianship in Singapore, using night scenes of Punggol, a northeastern suburb slated to be “a waterfront town of the 21st century”. Exactly Foundation is a not-for-profit established by Li Li Chung. Photographers are commissioned to create works to stimulate discussion of social concerns in Singapore.

© Kray Chen

JUNE 2017
IN THE GARDEN
Chapel Gallery
Artists Kray Chen, Hilmi Johandi, Kirsten Tan, Homa Shojaie, Ian Woo and Gladys Ng respond to physical spaces within the home and its perimeters. Through mediums ranging from photography, paintings, film, and installation art, the works will look at ideas of space, time, and memory, challenging conventional notions of the spaces in which we dwell. Curated by Adeline Kueh and Yuni Hadi.

MAY 2017
INTER-MISSION x IAFT 16/17
Chapel Gallery
An interdisciplinary audiovisual event co-presented by art collectives INTER–MISSION (Singapore) and Interdisciplinary Art Festival Tokyo (IAFT). Featuring Marcel Gaspar, Urich Lau, Lim Shengen and Teow Yue Han (INTER-MISSION) and Sung Nam Han, Takahiko Iimura, Shuhei Nishiyama, Kentaro Taki (IAFT), who share key concerns and objectives in building a platform to visualise the state of contemporary and contextual commentaries through technological and audiovisual arts.

MAY 2017
THE GRAD SHOW 
Chapel Gallery
NAFA’s School of Art and Design will present its combined diploma and degree graduation show at NAFA Campus 1 and the Objectifs gallery. The exhibition will feature over 550 works created by their graduating diploma and degree students from the programmes of 3D Design, Design & Media, Fine Art, and from the Fashion Studies discipline.

© Chow and Lin

APRIL 2017
EQUIVALENCE
Chapel Gallery
The Equivalence – Cans series delves into the state of the economy, social inequality and consumption patterns. It confronts us on how we view everyday life, often with our own set of tinted glasses, perhaps obscured by our world view determined by where we stand on the society strata. By artist duo Chow and Lin (Stefen Chow and Lin Huiyi), including a panel discussion with Associate Professor Oh Soon-Hwa (NTU), Professor Mohan Dutta and Associate Professor Irene Y.H. Ng (NUS).

APRIL 2017
THE FIRST DRAFT
Chapel Gallery
First Draft by THEBOOKSHOW aims to elevate the photo book as an artistic medium. The exhibition features photo books and selected photographic prints by eight nominated Singapore artists / photographers.

Paul Yeung’s Yes Madam, Sorry Ah Sir

APRIL 2017
HK/SG PHOTOBOOK EXCHANGE
A two-day event by Invisible Photographer Asia & Objectifs, showcasing a mini photobook exhibition from Hong Kong, artist talks, slideshow and a forum session with HK photographers Chan Dick, Paul Yeung and Doreen Chan, and SG photographers Darren Soh and Chua Chye Teck. Also featuring a slideshow with works by Alfred Ko, Ducky Tse, Dustin Shum, Johnny Gin, Lam Yik Fei, Lau Chi Chung, Lau Wai, Sheung Yiu, South Ho, Terry Ng, and Wong Kan Tai. A partner programme of First Draft by THEBOOKSHOW.

© Kae Yuan

FEB 2017
BETWEEN HOME AND HOME
Chapel Gallery
A fresh look at Singapore through the eyes of young artists working in photography and film, featuring: Adar Ng, Benita Leong, Ang Siew Ching, Christopher Wong, Debbie Yew, Gaby Jeyaseelan, Kae Yuan, Louisa Violet Ong, Lu Yixin, Alexandria Neoh, Carla Gabriela, Donovan Quek, Quince Pan, Valence Sim. Curated by Objectifs, the works in this exhibition are an outcome of the Noise Art Mentorship, an initiative of the National Arts Council. Mentors included Ang Song Nian, Edwin Koo, Jean Qingwen Loo, Liao Jiekai, and Roy Zhang.