entanglements
Curated by Huijun Lu
Featuring artists PG Lee, Rusydan Norr, Victoria Hertel, and Woong Soak Teng
entanglements stems from the belief that nature and technology are not discreet entities, but rather deeply entwined. Technology is often seen as dominating our natural environment, through rapid processes of extraction or destruction. Simultaneously, the same tools can aid in restoring connection, appreciating slowness and understanding environmental complexity. The natural world also has much to teach us about interdependence, systems and care. This entanglement is inevitable, and we are already in the centre of it.
Across a range of mediums, works by Victoria Hertel, PG Lee, Huijun Lu, Rusydan Norr and Woong Soak Teng examine plant systems, human bodies, synthetic materials and sensorial technologies, with natural and man-made systems coming together as collaborators and co-conspirators.
The exhibition is also accompanied by workshops with Huijun Lu and Isa Pengskul and artist talks joined by Tiffany Lay (of artist duo Weed Day) and Fajrina Razak.
Exhibition Programmes
Sat, 1 Aug, 2pm – 4pm
Artist Talk: Man-made nature, plant intelligence and weeds
Huijun Lu, PG Lee, Rusydan Norr, guest Tiffany Lay
Objectifs Workshop Space [RSVP here]
Sat, 1 Aug, 430pm – 6pm
Attending to trees: NOT a gardening workshop with Isa Pengskul
Around Objectifs [RSVP here]
Sat, 22 Aug, 730pm – 930pm
Nocturnes: A night-time field recording workshop with Huijun Lu
Around Objectifs [RSVP here]
Sat, 29 Aug, 2pm – 4pm
Artist Talk: Bodily technologies, sensorial perception and rituals
Victoria Hertel, Woong Soak Teng, guest Fajrina Razak
Objectifs Workshop Space [RSVP here]
Sat, 29 Aug, 4pm – 6pm
Publication Launch and Finessage
Objectifs Lower Galleries [RSVP here]
Exhibition
Objectifs Lower Galleries 1 & 2
Exhibition Opening Reception
Fri 31/07/2026, 7pm – 9pm
Free Admission
Various Programmes
Free Admission
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About the artists
Victoria Hertel
Victoria Hertel is a Singapore-based German-Venezuelan artist and adjunct lecturer. Her practice explores communication rituals, perception technologies, and ecological entanglements as ways of reconciling human behaviour with ongoing environmental over-extension. Functioning as nodes between spiritual, technological, and biological networks, her slow-tech installations evolve through input/output phenomena, making our interconnectedness more perceptible and felt.
Focusing on sustainable production, Hertel works with local maker-spaces, patinaed objects, and renewable energy sources for her installations, treating material provenance, composition, and post-use as extensions of her practice. She holds a BFA from the University of Barcelona and a MAFA from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London. She lectures in BA (Hons) Fine Arts and BA (Hons) Art Histories and Curatorial Practices at LASALLE. Her work has been presented in exhibitions and research residencies across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
PG Lee
As a visual artist based in Singapore, PG Lee is concerned with the temporality of existence and questions its instinctive and often absurd need for extension or transcendence. His work aims to shed light on the primordial yet brutal strategies of self-preservation, strategies inherent in nature and mirrored in the human world.
Having graduated with a degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London, Lee worked as an art educator for numerous years before practicing full-time after collecting an MFA from LASALLE College of the Arts. He has exhibited extensively in Singapore and overseas and had his first solo show, Weight/less, in 2015 at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in Singapore. He was also featured in Singapore Art Museum’s SAM Contemporaries in 2025. Working primarily in the media of sculpture and installation, he frequently mixes objects found in nature with industrial materials abundant in urbanised Singapore. PG also includes durational elements and performances in his works to bring forth the idea of ephemerality and decay.
Rusydan Norr
Rusydan Norr (b. 1998) is a Singapore-based visual artist and designer in-training whose practice explores plants as resources of creativity and contemplation. Having worked across nature-based photographic processes and installations, he is drawn to the various scales of interactions and transformations that occur within and across living systems over time. His on-going inquiry positions sculptural forms as open systems that also act as support structures, meditating on nature conservation and the interdependence between ecological resilience, material decay, and the rhythms of more-than-human life.
Woong Soak Teng
Woong Soak Teng (b. 1994, Singapore) explores the human tendencies to control natural phenomena and nature at large in her practice. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Digital Imaging at the Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media. She has participated in festivals and exhibitions internationally in Auckland, Copenhagen, Daegu, Dali, Thessaloniki, Tokyo, Shanghai and Singapore. Her accolades include the Steidl Book Award Asia, Objectifs Documentary Award 2021, Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Photography 2018 and Singapore Young Photographer Award 2018.
About the Curator
Huijun Lu
Working at the intersections of art, music, engineering and computing, the practice of Huijun Lu culminates in kinetic installations, sculptures, moving images and soundscapes. Consistent in the works are mechanisms and circuits that the artist devises and builds to examine the function and utility of objects, observations about the unnoticed in our environments, as well as technology’s role in mediating our relationship with the natural world.
Lu has held solo exhibitions in Singapore, susurration (Queensway Television, 2025), approximations (dblspce, 2023) and loop / pool (The Esplanade, 2022), and participated in numerous group shows locally and internationally, including in Germany, Portugal, Taiwan, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Most recently, Lu was artist-in-residence at Taipei Treasure Hill Artist Village from June to August 2025 and has previously completed residencies at Zaratan in Portugal in February 2025 and the Singapore Art Museum from April to September 2024.
About Guest Artists
Isa Pengskul
Working across sculpture, installation, and participatory frameworks, Isa Pengskul creates situations where the agency of more-than-human things becomes palpable. Whether through objects that disrupt expectations or participatory works that generate collective insight, her practice asks us to recognize our embeddedness in an interconnected world.
Pengskul holds an MA in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore (as a Maguire Fellow), and studied Philosophy and Studio Art at Vassar College, NY. Her work has been exhibited across the USA, Thailand, Singapore, and South Africa.
Tiffany Lay
Tiffany Lay is from the artist duo Weed Day and also co-founder of Grassland; she is a true child at heart, always curious about the world around us and loves nature. Always looking to discover the weeds in every corner, inspired by the weeds, she hopes others can see their powers and that the world is a magical place. Weed Day is a foraging artist duo who initiates “contemporary foraging” through diverse art exhibitions and community projects, guiding people to savor the wild coexistence found in everyday weeds and to explore a new, nurturing relationship between humanity and the land through a sustainable cup of tea.
Fajrina Razak
Fajrina Razak (b.1989) is a Singaporean artist, cultural-curatorial worker and researcher based between London and Singapore. Working primarily with batik, her work uses traditional materials and contemporary methods as conduits for the archival of knowledge, forming inquiries on historical references and colonial ethnography related to Nusantara (Malay-Indo archipelago) and Southeast Asia at large. Her ongoing research observes sustained Austronesian ethnoecology practices as ways for re-indigenizing, decoloniality and remediation with the natural world amidst hyper development. Currently she is working on an artistic research project on the colonial-capitalist entanglements with colour histories with a focus on indigo.
Fajrina is the founder of a residency programme 405 Art Residency. Her works are in the permanent collection of the Singapore Art Museum and private collections. She was the President of Angkatan Pelukis Aneka Daya (APAD, Association of Artists of Various Resources) in the term 2020-22. In 2023, she was artist-in-residence at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia and at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The Philippines. She holds an MA Art & Ecology (with Distinction) from Goldsmiths, University of London and was awarded the National Arts Council (Singapore) 2024 Postgraduate Arts Scholarship for the pursuit of her studies.