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Nhàn Tran, a documentary photographer based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and the recipient of the Objectifs Documentary Award 2021 (Emerging Category), presented her project in an exhibition at …
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Recipient of the Objectifs Documentary Award, Emerging Category As part of this award, Soak Teng was mentored by Hannah Reyes Morales

Lower Gallery, Objectifs 26 Apr to 19 Jun 2022 …
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Visual Thinking: Sense of Knowing, was a group show featuring the process drawings by 10 local artists, which have rarely been seen by the general public. The exhibition ran from 14 January – 13 February 2022 at Comma Space.

Being one of the oldest forms of human expression, drawing is an in-between phase of disciplinary development that crystallises an artist’s ideas and imagination. For artists, creating drawings is more than an intuitive expression, which can help to bring their sensation into knowing. It is an important moment of visual thinking that captures the relationship between hands and mind, which is often a result of visualisation, de-problematisation, projection into the unknown and visual communication.

The drawings in the show are chosen with the condition that the final artworks have already been successfully realised. The artists, selected based on their diversified areas of practices, include conceptual artists, sculptors, painters, performer, architect, etc, offering an extensive view of how drawings play a critical part in the realisation of a final creation.

Visual Thinking is part of INBETWEEN – a key curatorial series of Comma Space for 2021-2022.

About Wang Ruobing
Wang Ruobing is an artist, independent curator and art educator based in Singapore. She received her PhD from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. She was previously a curator at the National Gallery Singapore. At present, she works as a lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts and is the co-founder of Comma Space 逗号空间: an artist-run experimental art space that creates thinking spaces between commas. As an independent curator, her recent curated exhibitions include 12 SOLO (2020 -2021, ongoing); Arts in Your Neighbourhood (Public Art Trust 2018 and 2019); Happens When Nothing Happens (The Esplanade, 2019); Of Other Places (The Substation, 2019); and Beneath Tide, Running Forest (Singapore Botanic Gardens, 2018).

As an academic, her research concentrates on identity, hybridity and transcultural discourses, particularly on contemporary art in China and Southeast Asia. Her writings have appeared in publications such as Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (JCCA), Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Nanyang Art and a range of exhibition catalogues. Wang’s artistic work spans across a variety of methods and approaches, including drawing, film, photography, sculpture and installation. Concerned with challenging and exploring different ways of seeing everyday objects and urban landscapes in relation to the rapidly changing world of today, Wang creates artworks that actively disrupt perception and spotlight on the anthropological nature of objects. Wang has exhibited extensively, with solo and group shows showcased both locally and abroad.

About Comma Space
Comma Space 逗号空间 is an artist-run experimental space that creates thinking spaces between commas.

Referring to the comma’s functionality of separating, setting off phrases, expressing contrast, Comma Space 逗号空间 plans to be a hub for creativity and criticism, bonding with people from different backgrounds, and reaching out to the local communities, and demonstrates ways in which art is vital as part of society.

Comma Space 逗号空间 makes art, curates exhibitions, commissions projects, generates and applies research, and supports contemporary artists locally, regionally and internationally.
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The Objectifs Short Film Incubator is an initiative presented by Objectifs that focuses on developing short film scripts. The programme is open to Southeast Asian filmmakers working with moving images, …
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Objectifs’ sixth Women in Film & Photography showcase included two short film programmes which screened at The Projector on 4 Dec 2021. Open Call Short Films, curated by Leong Puiyee, presented …
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Featuring works by Lee Chang Ming In collaboration with Dennese Victoria and Samantha Yap Objectifs Store 1 Mar to 29 Jul 2022 Free admission 

Conversations is …
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Published in conjunction with Hor Kwok Kin’s first solo exhibition at artcommune gallery, Through the Streets and the Darkroom: Photographic Work by Hor Kwok Kin, this 85-page commemorative monograph features over 60 plates of black-and-white photographic prints that were captured and developed using darkroom techniques between the 1960s and 1980s. The publication also includes a statement by the artist; a foreword by Goh Kim Hui (Hon FPSS, Hon EFIAP), President of the Photographic Society of Singapore; a message from Magnus Renfrew; and an essay by researcher/writer Kong Yen Lin titled, Everything Burns if the Flame is Hot Enough: The Photographic Life of Hor Kwok Kin.

Hor Kwok Kin’s works could be classified alongside other modernist photographers such as his friend and mentor, Cultural Medallion recipient Yip Cheong Fun. Heavily influenced by humanist photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson’s pioneering street photography, Hor captured the scenes of everyday Singapore with a strikingly modernist composition. More than mere aesthetic expressions, his pictures serve as important archives of Singapore in the 1960s-70s as well. His identity as a working-class photographer proved to be a leverage that allowed him to effectively record moments that are intensely empathetic to the subject, such as a restaurant worker and hor fun manufacturer, setting him apart from many of his contemporaries.

About Hor Kwok Kin

Hor Kwok Kin FRPS, APSS (1939, Ipoh – ) arrived in Singapore in 1958. A chef by occupation, he first worked at Loong Yick Kee Restaurant in Bugis before venturing out in the 1980s to open his own cze char stall. Through an advertisement in the phonebook, he discovered and eventually purchased his first camera – a Leica M3 – after saving five months’ worth of salary. A picture of Marina Bay in that same year marked the beginning of his decades-long career as a photographer.

Hor persisted in his pursuit of photography, albeit curtailed by his hectic work schedule, spending almost every waking hour on his off days and during rest hours with his camera in hand. Notwithstanding that he was unable to afford the equipment and services the wealthier photographers had access to, Hor thought out of the box and converted the toilet of the restaurant into a darkroom to facilitate his film processing using an original chemical concoction in replacement of the conventional developing agent.

Hor’s oeuvre stands as a testament to his dedication to art. In recognition of this, he was awarded the Associate Membership of both The Royal Photography Society (United Kingdom) and the Photographic Society of Singapore in 1986. He was further promoted to the esteemed position of Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1992.

About artcommune gallery
artcommune gallery was founded in 2009 by Ho Sou Ping, with a particular focus on Singapore Modern art. The gallery represents the finest and most important artists in the Singapore visual art canon, from revered pioneer masters Cheong Soo Pieng and Chen Wen Hsi, to current leading painters of varying fortes including Lim Tze Peng, Ong Kim Seng, Tan Choh Tee, Tong Chin Sye and Wong Keen.

artcommune gallery is a trusted centre for art education, acquisition and investment consultancy for a large, growing base of local and foreign art collectors. Over the years, the gallery has organised several high-profile academic exhibitions with a mission to promote a vibrant artistic landscape in Singapore and foster strong public awareness for local artists and art history.
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The final Objectifs Film Club session of 2021, presented in collaboration with un.thai.tled Film Festival Berlin, featured Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke discussing his short film Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing on …
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