DEC 2022
READING BY AN ARTIST
Chapel Gallery
In this performance artwork, artist John Clang embodies his search for meaning, purpose and identity by adopting the technique of zi wei dou shu (紫微斗数), a metaphysical philosophy dating back to imperial China, to forecast events in the life of invited participants and illuminate insights to challenges. Integrating knowledge from geomancy to Chinese medicine and elements, the approach involves computing charts based on one’s birth timing to intuit interrelationships between various core “palaces” of life such as health, kinship and career. The readings, conducted in hour-long durations, welcome anyone and everyone seeking advice. Reflecting on dual roles of an artist and visionary in triangulating causality, necessity and possibility, the artwork contemplates on critical junctures where art ceases and life begins. It questions how knowledge gathering through seemingly unconventional routes reconciles with an increasingly contrived reality which is exceedingly scripted and post-produced. View the performance documentation here.

NOV 2023
CROSSING PATHS
Outdoor Courtyard
An outdoor exhibition by 12 student photographers of Pathlight School exploring the people, spaces, and things that define their school experiences, shedding light on the extraordinary within the ordinary. Through a year-long workshop with instructor Marvin Tang, students from Pathlight School explored various photographic skills, resulting in the creation of these images.

OCT-NOV 2023
DANCING ON PAPER
Lower Gallery
Dancing on Paper by Jane Goh is an exploration of abstract nude female drawings rendered in the mediums of Chinese ink, crayons and acrylic. This exhibition invites you to embark on a journey into the boundless realm of femininity, where form meets abstraction and lines converge to celebrate the sheer beauty of the female body. Her works captivate with their delicate dance between abstraction and representation. With each stroke, the artist evokes a symphony of emotions, echoing the complexity and diversity of womanhood.

OCT 2023
ALT_TAB
Lower Galleries
An exhibition featuring the alternate creative passions of advertising professionals, from art directors to copywriters, strategists to producers. Featuring Angus Hunter, Arcs of Stellar, Athirah Nazzuin, Auraya Pongpradit, bernice gaspar, Bryan Yu, Cherry Chan, Cynthia Luo, Edrick Tan, Elsie Loh, Hannah Teo, Isaac Ong, JT Tang, Kapilan Naidu, Kar Men Lee, Kessie Zheng, Nasrul Haqqim, Olga Bessarab, Zoe Raras-Ong.

SEP 2023
EXACTLY FOUNDATION EXHIBIT 9
Lower Gallery
In Path. 11, Boedi Widjaja contemplated notions of invisibility and impalpable intensities. He worked with cosmic ray muons as material, and his research culminated in experimental photography and moving-image projects. In Side-Eyes, writer-photographer Marc Nair considers how offence is captured photographically along the streets and public housing blocks of Bras Basah. Presented by Exactly Foundation.

JULY-AUG 2023
BEING WITH WATER
Lower Gallery
Being with Water is a photographic work that explores the interconnectedness between our interior worlds and the elemental. It features unique silver gelatin prints suggestive of landscapes, dusk, and dawn, visually alluding to renewal and transformation, beginnings and endings, hope and loss – universal experiences as we navigate life. To create these prints, artist Ng Hui Hsien bypasses the camera and works directly and primarily with water, light, and photographic materials. For her, this hands-on analogue process is her attempt to better understand – and learn from – the characteristics of natural elements, especially water. In a way hence, Being with Water also invites us to see ourselves and draw lessons from the natural world around us. Read an essay about the exhibition by Michelle JN Lim here.

JUN 2023
A PIECE OF HOME
Chapel Gallery
How can we encourage more to look at the world with fresh eyes, unencumbered by the norms and standards of society? Perhaps start at A Piece Of Home, a group exhibition featuring 26 young persons with disabilities (PwDs). Organised by ART:DIS, the comprehensive showcase of over 60 artworks across paintings, prints & ceramics invites viewers to suspend notions of what is commonplace and to embrace difference instead. This exhibition is a highlight of ART:DIS’s 30th anniversary celebration and a cumulation of a year of artist-in-training programme in the Fine Arts and Ceramics faculty.

© Luna Chang

FEB-MAR 2023
YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME CLASS OF 2022 EXHIBITION
Lower Gallery & Courtyard
Featuring works by the photographers from Objectifs’ young photographers developmental programme. Includes Andrea Vincent, Chang Jia Xuan Luna, Desnando Sarlim, Ethel Lim Kay Qin, Gayle Lim, Goh Pei Xuan Jomel, Kayleigh Qiqi Ho, Kyle Davidson, Janson Lim, Joel Tan Haohui, JX Soo, Minsoo Bae, Muhammad Syahmi Bin Hashim, and Muhammad Zulfadhli.

© Shane Koh Kechun – Pathlight School

FEB 2023
SCHOOL WORKSHOPS’ SHOWCASE 2023
Lower Gallery
Here at Objectifs, our school photography workshops aim not only to equip students with camera knowledge and competency, but to also provide them with a platform to visually articulate their stories and showcase the sights that capture their imagination.Featuring works by students of Crescent Girls’ School, Raffles Institution, Pathlight School and Naval Base Secondary School