BO3K by Xiao Longhua, Dali, Kong Sanpang
The ‘Book Bag’ series is the first collaboration between KOVA and 1 and Half Atelier. Originally designed as an exhibition catalogue for the Beijing event “Innernet,” this book/bag enhances its functionality through a wearable structure and “bleed” zippers while effectively conveying information. Additionally, BOxK utilizes printed reproductions of works by three artists (Xiao Longhua, Dali, and Kong Sanpang), echoing the concept of KOVA’s mobile cabinet and bringing art into the audience’s lives in a more fluid and engaging way.
About KOVA
KOVA is a collaborative lab infused with the concept of the “mobile cabinet,” questing to curate dynamic creative expressions through wearable mediums. In partnership with artists from various disciplines, it offers design, curation and production services for collaborations through images, texts, fashion, and exhibitions. KOVA revolves around the current discourses on urban life with humorous design language and circular economy perspectives; it seeks to bridge the gap between audiences and creators by offering more accessible art productions and events.
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BO1K by Xiao Longhua, Dali, Kong Sanpang
The ‘Book Bag’ series is the first collaboration between KOVA and 1 and Half Atelier. Originally designed as an exhibition catalogue for the Beijing event “Innernet,” this book/bag enhances its functionality through a wearable structure and “bleed” zippers while effectively conveying information. Additionally, BOxK utilizes printed reproductions of works by three artists (Xiao Longhua, Dali, and Kong Sanpang), echoing the concept of KOVA’s mobile cabinet and bringing art into the audience’s lives in a more fluid and engaging way.
About KOVA
KOVA is a collaborative lab infused with the concept of the “mobile cabinet,” questing to curate dynamic creative expressions through wearable mediums. In partnership with artists from various disciplines, it offers design, curation and production services for collaborations through images, texts, fashion, and exhibitions. KOVA revolves around the current discourses on urban life with humorous design language and circular economy perspectives; it seeks to bridge the gap between audiences and creators by offering more accessible art productions and events.
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PULP III by Shubigi Rao
Shubigi Rao’s multidisciplinary practice critiques contemporary celebrations of ignorance and culling of knowledge. A glorious tribute and haunting elegy to shared humanity and communities of print, this exhibition marks the midpoint of her evocative 10-year project Pulp, which explores the history of book destruction and its impact on the futures of knowledge.
Based on an artistic method of solo travel and filming as well as building trust and kinship with people across the world, her work is a recovery of overlooked half-truths, hearsay, contested narratives and secrets. Such vital histories have often been deliberately obscured by those in power and by the expediencies of capital. When encountered here, the collected stories become seeds of knowledge that resist erasure and circumvent geopolitical and cultural divides.
Pulp III explores the precarity of endangered languages, the futures of public and alternative libraries, the work of defenders of books, and the cosmopolitanism of regional print communities that have blossomed and waned in historic centres of print, such as Venice and Singapore.
About Shubigi Rao
Shubigi Rao is an artist, writer, and filmmaker working with histories and lies, literature and violence, ecologies and natural history, libraries and knowledge hierarchies. Her films, art, and books critically, wittily, and poetically scrutinise current and historical flashpoints and crises of displacement of people, languages, cultures, and knowledge bodies. Her immersive and tongue-in-cheek work ranges from creating archaeological archives of garbage, writing How To manuals for building a nation and a culture from scratch, discovering and diagnosing peculiar forms of urban malaise where digital dandruff and pixel dust accumulate like lint and cloud the contemporary brain, building immortal jellyfish, to pseudo-museums regenerating mechanisms of knowledge accumulation, storage, and destruction.
Her current long project, Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book is about the history of book destruction, resistance, and the future of knowledge. (see here for more info). The first exhibition from the project won the APB Signature Prize 2018 Juror’s Choice Award. Both the second and third books from the project won the Singapore Literature Prize (non-fiction) in 2020 and 2024, while the first volume was shortlisted for the prize (2018). The books have been awarded AIGA (New York)’s 50 best books of 2016, and D&AD Pencil for design (2016, 2018), and included in the peer-selected ‘Best 50 books of Singaporean Literature’. She was in the 10th Asia-Pacific Triennial, 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 10th Taipei Biennial, 3rd Pune Biennale, 2nd Singapore Biennale, Auckland Writers Festival, and Singapore Writers Festival.
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In Search of Nessie by Kim Shinwook
In Search of Nessie is a limited edition of 300 copies containing 57 photography works created by Shinwook Kim between 2018-2020 and various materials and booklets collected from all over the world. It includes the Italian historian and art critic Rebecca Piva’s ‘In Search of Nessie’ and the machine critic Young Jun Lee’s essay “Photographs, the Real-life Tool Confronting Fabrication: Photographing (the Fabrication of) Nessie” is included in English and Korean booklets. Click here for more details about the project In Search of Nessie.
About Kim Shinwook
Shinwook Kim is an award-winning artist based in Seoul, London, and Milan. Kim received his doctorate degree in Fine Art at University of East London, an MA in Fine Art Photography at Royal College of Art in the UK, and a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Within his work, he has been interested in exploring, through detailed observation of, and collecting artifacts from, his surroundings, the effect that place and memory have on humans and their environment. He explores the various invisible stories impacted by specific places and events, and those things that exist but do not show themselves directly. Recently, using ‘placeness’-which gets its meaning from recognition and experience-as a foundation, his interest has moved towards people and places separated from their pasts due to migration and movement, disconnection and destruction, and thus that do not have this sense of ‘placeness’.
He has exhibited and been awarded in the UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland/Sweden, Japan, and South Korea. His works are held in the permanent collection at the MMCA Government Art Bank, Kiyosato Photo Art Museum in Japan, Oriel College, University of Oxford in the UK, GoEun Museum of Photography, KT&G SangSang Madang, Seoul City Hall in South Korea, and many more. Shinwook KIM is an Assistant Professor, School of Photography & Motion Picture, Kyungil University and the artist represented by CE contemporary in Milan, Italy and recently awarded ‘UK Alumni Awards Winner for Culture and Creativity’, British Council, UK.
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space (Reprinted – White sheep) by Sesame Space
Each book has a slightly different finish – sandpaper clipped into the book, deliberately wrinkled, coffee stained, scribbled, glued and torn, and so on.
About Sesamespace
Sesame Space is a Tokyo-based artist duo who works around the theme of “Collage of experiences” and “At the Edge of space.”
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A pocket dictionary of word slips by Genevieve Leong
The publication a pocket dictionary of word slips (english/german special edition) is the third of a series of pocket dictionaries. This special edition was heavily inspired by the artist’s 3 years of learning the German language while living in Switzerland. Compiling a series of English and German words that may be confusing to a foreigner, these word associations thread the lines of humour, poetry and unpredictability.
About Genevieve Leong
Genevieve Leong completed her BA Fine Art (Photography & Digital Imaging) at Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design & Media, Singapore, in 2015, and her MA Contemporary Art Practice (Critical Practice) at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2019. She was based in Switzerland from August 2019—March 2023 and relocated back to Singapore in April 2023.
Her art practice attempts to visualise the intangible. Beginning with the immaterial, her work often combines text, image, found and made objects and the manipulation of space to create what she describes as “an almost physical image”. Her work seeks to shed new light onto her emotions, sensations, and realisations.
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On Water
An exhibition by Lim Sokchanlina and Zen Teh
9 Nov to 15 Dec 2024 Objectifs Chapel Gallery Opening: Sat 9 Nov 2024, 3pm – 5pm Free admission
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on things fugitive by Angelica Ong
on things fugitive《如朝露暮霭》「果敢無い物事」«sur les choses fugitives is a zine/artist book consisting of laser prints on vellum and newsprint. This is Angelica’s first series of zines and every copy in this edition of 100 was bound personally by hand. The images speak to Angelica’s fascination with time and its indexes (the traces/evidence of time’s passing), such as dust, snow, ice, and smoke. Layers of dust indicate the absence of presence, piling snow marks the change of the seasons, melting ice tracks the passing of time, and burning incense (which releases smoke) measures duration. This publication captures things that evade the naked eye, that are in constant flux, that stroke the human inclination to immortalise; it is a publication on things fugitive.
Bougies d’allumage by Hubert Kilian
This filming plan started in 2019 and will gradually take shape in 2021. For me, this creation is a re-examination of Taipei from a new perspective, which is very different from my past works. I had to find a new way to interpret the city and capture a different side of Taipei. This time, I chose color and day, trying to find an opportunity to start a new dialogue with the city.
About Hubert Kilian
Hubert KILIAN [余白] has been Taipei-based French journalist from 2003 to 2016. In 1996, he began his photographic journey with the desire to record shadows cast by the cities and marks left through times on walls. Since then, he has been working to expose the relationship between the dwellers and environment that conditions and transcends them. Through this urban momentum, marked with lonely atmospheres, a stage for obsolete modernity and nostalgia, Hubert seeks to reveal the dramatic potential of this great spectacle of time and people passing by and of stones that remain. By choice, Taipei is one of his favorite subjects. It’s a moody city which the elusive beauty is never given at the first sight. His work has been shown on TV5 Canada, Arte, Formosa TV, Asia Discovery, France Culture, Art Critique of Taiwan, Public Service Television, Vogue Taiwan, Tatler Taiwan, Apple Daily, United Daily News, etc…. He has exhibited in France, Japan and Taiwan. In 2018, he has published “Visages de Taipei” with Happiness Culture editions (sold out), followed by “Ventre de Taipei” published in 2022 by Locus Publishing.
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