An exploration of the singular yet communal act of enduring through grief
An exhibition by Deanna Ng & Mary Bernadette Lee
Taking place as part of Women in Film & Photography 2025
Lower Gallery, Objectifs
10 Oct to 23 Nov 2025
Free admission
Related events
Opening | Fri 10 Oct, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Artists’ sharing | Sat 8 Nov, 2pm to 3.30pm & Sat 22 Nov, 1pm to 2.30pm (Click here to RSVP)
Grief cracks us open. Across a year of letters, conversations and shared art making, two friends navigate loss as a reckoning with living. In the quiet labour of grieving and mourning, they find solace. Sitting with discomfort, they embrace recovery as an ongoing dialogue with absence. Their parallel journeys reveal how grief intertwines with memory and time, reshaping how they live and leave. Through intimate exchanges, they explore the terrain between experiences and expressions, each gesture a testament to the singular yet communal act of enduring.
Deanna Ng and Mary Bernadette Lee first shared this exchange at the Objectifs’ Women in Film & Photography group residency in 2024, and continue their conversation here.
About the artists
Deanna Ng (b.1976) is an independent photographer and arts educator who is interested in documenting fragments of memory found in a rapidly changing urban landscape that she calls home – Singapore.
In 2009, her work with Lien Foundation on end-of-life issues left an indelible mark on her. She questions how grief becomes part of our life and how we contain it. Having exhibited extensively in Japan, Turkey, Iceland and Singapore, she continues to work on several projects that examine not only her own memories, but also of those who are around her.
Mary Bernadette Lee is based as an artist in Singapore. Her artistic practice takes the phenomenological approach investigating relationships between body, architecture and space, and psychological states relating to Self, Identity and Home. This relational dialectics between the physiological and the psychological is expressed through her works that foreground the architecture of her as a person and an artist.
For the rest of our Women in Film and Photography 2025 programme, click here.