Every Day As Our Last
An exhibition by Deanna Ng and Mary Bernadette Lee
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.
Artists' Sharing (8 Nov or 22 Nov)
Hear from Deanna Ng and Mary Bernadette Lee during this session, where they will be sharing their methods in the exploration of grief, how it is interwoven with the act of living, and how they hold space for it in their lives. Deanna and Mary will divulge how their shared journey began, and how the seemingly simple act of letter writing kickstarted their own healing due to the vulnerability entailed during the process.
Both artists will read excerpts from their letters to each other during the session. Attendees are welcome to quietly reflect on the personal grief they carry in an optional activity.
An Exhibition in Two Parts
Part 1 / Wanderings: 10 Oct to 23 Nov
Part 2 / Conversations: 7 Nov to 23 Nov
Objectifs Lower Galleries
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Opening | Fri 10 Oct, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Artists’ sharing | Sat 8 Nov, 2pm to 3.30pm OR Sat 22 Nov, 1pm to 2.30pm
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About the Artists
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.
Deanna Ng (b.1976) is a lens-based artist and arts educator, who observes and documents precious fragments of memories arising from the everyday, in her rapidly changing home, Singapore.
Having exhibited extensively in Japan, Turkey, Iceland and Singapore, she works on projects that examine not only her own memories and experiences, but also of the people and communities that she meets.
In 2009, her work with Lien Foundation on end-of-life issues left an indelible mark on her. From a storyteller about grief and loss to experiencing it herself, she turns her lens inwards to contemplate how grief becomes a part of her life and how to grow around it.