OCT-DEC 2018
PERSONALLY SPEAKING: THE ART OF CAREGIVING
Featuring works by Alecia Neo, ampulets, Deanna Ng, Gwee Li Sui, Joseph Chiang, Kray Chen, Mary Bernadette Lee and Sun Koh. Commissioned by Lien Foundation, in partnership with Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Produced by Objectifs

8 Oct to 14 Oct / Community Plaza, Oasis Terraces
15 Oct to 18 Nov / Jurong Regional Library
22 Nov to 16 Dec / Chapel Gallery, Objectifs

Personally Speaking is a visual arts project that explores the stories of caregiving for people with special needs, mental illness, and the elderly. Eight Singapore artists have been inspired by the personal joys and challenges of caregivers, shared with them by people of all walks of life, including parents, children, teachers, social workers and healthcare professionals.

While each account is unique, they collectively reflect the anxieties and difficulties faced by many caregivers. Many of them harbor simple hopes and dreams of a better life for their wards. Through this exhibition, we hope to create a space that allows everyone to reflect on their own caregiving journey, and consider the kind of care that we would like our loved ones and ourselves to receive.

SEP 2018
THE PROBABILITY OF VERACITY PART 2: THE RE-ENACTMENTS (FROM ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL)
Lower Gallery
Gilles Massot is a multidisciplinary artist whose project The Probability of Veracity is focused on Jules Itier (1802-77), a French customs officer who made daguerreotypes of his journey around Asia in 1844-45. In part one of this project, Massot used painting to re-create the seven missing daguerreotypes mentioned in Itier’s published journal. In this exhibition, which presents the second part of the project, Massot uses a highly experimental technique to reflect on the development of photography since Itier’s original works were first created in the 19th century. This photographic installation is complemented by a soundscape by musicians Leslie Tan and Luke Chen, whom Massot invited to collaborate with him.

Library book with bullet holes, by Shubigi Rao

AUG 2018
THE WOOD FOR THE TREES
Lower Gallery
Since 2014 artist and writer Shubigi Rao has been working on a ten-year film, art and book project, Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book, about book and library destruction, and the book as activism and resistance.

Following the release of the first volume in 2016, The Wood for the Trees presents documentation and material from this project’s second volume. The Wood for the Trees functions as a visual bibliography of the texts, people, and sites encountered during her project. One of its aims is to explore the connective tissue that exists between artists, writers, printers, academics, bibliophiles, shadow library activists, librarians and other cultural custodians, and various defenders and supporters of print and open access to knowledge.

Purchase Shubigi Rao’s books at our physical store or via our webstore:
– Pulp II: A Visual Bibliography of the Banished Book (Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2020 -Creative Nonfiction in English)

AUG 2018
SNAPSHOTS UNDER THE STARS
Courtyard
The Objectifs Courtyard once again comes alive for Singapore Night Fest 2018! Join us on a nostalgic journey down memory lane with a slideshow featuring old images of Singapore by Lui Hock Seng, Lim Kwong Ling and The Photographic Society of Singapore (PSS Singapore). Accompanying the slideshow will be classics and original compositions by musician Jack Tan.

Harit Srikhao, Thailand (Young Portfolio Award)

AUG 2018
INVISIBLE PHOTOGRAPHER ASIA AWARDS 2018 EXHIBITION
Chapel Gallery
The Invisible Photographer Asia Awards aim to spotlight and champion excellence in photography art and practice in Asia. This exhibition presents works by the winners of the 2018 IPA Awards in the following four categories: Documentary Prize, Art Prize, Photobook Prize and Young Portfolio Prize. View the full list of finalists and their showcases here.

© How Hwee Young/epa

JUN-JUL 2018
CHANGING CHINA
Chapel Gallery
The rise of China is one of the most contentious stories of our times. The complex changes involved – from the drastic renewal of the country’s cities and the countryside, to Beijing’s new-found technological prowess and its assertiveness on the global stage – defy easy explanation, and have often divided global opinion. This exhibition gives a perspective from the ground up, as seen by two Singaporean photographers who have witnessed China’s transformation over the past 15 years.

In their first major showing in Singapore, journalist and independent documentary photographer Chua Chin Hon and photojournalist How Hwee Young focus on the changing lives of the ordinary Chinese caught up in this wave of change. Their photographs also showcase the remarkable transformation of the country’s landscape, which has been reshaped by rapid urbanisation, ambitious engineering projects and global showcases like the Beijing Olympics. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 2008 summer Games, a timely occasion to look back on China’s meteoric rise in recent years and ponder the future impact of its re-emergence on the global stage.

JUN-JUL 2018
CHANGING CHINA: FILM SCREENINGS
Lower Gallery
These independent short films by young Chinese filmmakers make their Singapore premiere, providing insight into the realities and struggles of coping with transition in China’s changing landscape and culture. The films reflect strong personal sensibilities, while questioning the uncertainties and possibilities of the unknown future. The short films include A Mother Tongue Lesson
(by Melmii Borjigin), Letter from Xiaobei (by Zimu Zhang), Niu in the last day of fall (by Zheng Lu Xinyuan) and Summer (by Liu Qiang).  This film programme is part of Changing China: The Defining Years. 

JULY 2018
BLIND SPOTS
Lower Gallery
A photography project by Labour Arty that aims to document the everyday common spaces and places shared by migrant workers and locals. These scenes are often seen but not noticed, and offer momentary glimpses of intimacy and interaction that are laid bare, though at times not by choice. The works featured by Abigail Han, Gaelan Gu, Lisabelle Tay and Harriet Koh include snapshots of the back of lorries that carry humans as cargo, as well as selections from partner projects.


MAY 2018
A WALKED LINE CAN NEVER BE ERASED
Chapel Gallery
Amanda Heng began her practice in the late 1980s, an epochal moment in Singapore art history that saw the beginnings of contemporary art, where she worked in performance, installation and other multi-disciplinary projects. A lecturer and full-time art practitioner, Heng was also awarded the prestigious Cultural Medallion award in 2010.

A Walked Line Can Never Be Erased features documentation of and artistic responses to the events that Amanda Heng presented as part of M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: Let’s Walk.

The durational live performance I Walk from the South to the North continued Amanda’s interest in rituals, exchanges and their relationship with live performance in daily life. In the public participatory performance Let’s Walk, participants walked backwards from The Substation to the Merlion Park. Amanda also conducted the Walking Workshops with art and design student-participants who created works in response to the walks. Includes a panel discussion on Contemporary Art and the Everyday with Amanda Heng, Woon Tien Wei and Zaki Razak. 

APR 2018
INSTINCTIVE 2.1: (IN)SIGNIFICANT
Chapel Gallery
instinctive is a Singapore-based artist collective consisting of artist-members from across the globe. It was first formed in 2016 with artists coming together in the tenets of collaboration, cultural exchange and friendship. The exhibition brings together 12 artists of diverse practices and working across various mediums to explore the oft-overlooked aspect of size and scale in both the artwork and its subject. Featuring works by Alba Escayo (Spain), Chang Hui Fang (Taiwan), Claire Deniau (France), Deusa Blumke (Brazil), Justin Lee (SG), Kim Kei (USA), Martha Chaudhry (US), Natalia Ludmila (Mexico), Paul Campbell (US), Shin-young Park (New Zealand), Urich Lau (SG) and Yeo Shih Yun (SG).

JAN-FEB 2018
FIVE REHEARSALS OF A WEDDING
Chapel Gallery
TVisual artist Kray Chen presents a new project that turns a playful eye on the rituals of an average Singaporean Chinese wedding, in a quest to understand the anxieties and behaviours associated with weddings today. Commonly viewed as a rite of passage, weddings are bound up in cultural, social, and collective expectations. But what happens when the conditions surrounding a traditional wedding are given a twist?

Curated by Kimberly Shen, part of Singapore Art Week.

© Muhammad Fadli

JAN-FEB 2018
WE WILL HAVE BEEN YOUNG
Lower Gallery
Twelve photographers from eight Southeast Asian countries were selected for mentorship at the Southeast Asian Photography Masterclass at OBSCURA Festival of Photography 2016. Over the course of a year, they were mentored by photographers Jörg Brüggemann and Tobias Kruse of the agency OSTKREUZ Agentur der Fotografen, working on individual projects themed on youth and the future. The exhibiting photographers are: Alvin Lau (Malaysia), Amrita Chandradas (Singapore), Muhammad Fadli (Indonesia), Dennese Victoria (the Philippines), Kanel Khiev (Cambodia), Dwi Asrul Fajar (Indonesia), Elliott Koon (Malaysia), Watsamon Tri-yasakda (Thailand), Lee Chang Ming (Singapore), Geric Cruz (the Philippines), Linh Pham (Vietnam) and Yu Yu Myint Than (Myanmar). The works are also available in a photobook