Student Visual Storytelling Awards Exhibition: World Around Me
9 Sep to 6 Oct 2024 Library@ Orchard, Trend Gallery Free admission Open daily between 11am – 9pm (Closed on Public Holidays)
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Culinary Canvas by Ng Xin Lui
Waterloo Street, located in the heart of Singapore, is renowned for its rich culture and dining options. Culinary Canvas is a photography zine that captures the diverse and dynamic food scene of Waterloo Street. This series serves as both a visual feast and a guide, showcasing personal recommendations by the artist and her sister, to dine and drink along Waterloo Street. It also invites viewers to explore the harmonious blend of unique flavours and atmospheres of the street, capturing the essence of experiences, the joy, the laughter and the familial bond that makes every meal unique.
About Ng Xin Lui
Ng Xin Lui is an image maker that uses photos to explore the ephemeral nature of existence and life. With her field of study being engineering and sciences, her works are inspired by the natural world, capturing the beauty found in impermanence, familial bonds and living.
She forms half of the collective, Leitmotif Studio.
Her works have been selected to be part of a group exhibition by Ngee Ann Kongsi and she is a recipient of Objectifs’ Shooting Home Youth Awards (SHYA) 2021, a selected group exhibition and mentorship program.
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Exactly Foundation – With and Without You by Geraldine Kang
With and without you is an intimate exploration of the relationships between Singapore-based individuals, their families, and the foreign domestic helpers they employ. Ultimately, it aims to uncover what it is that domestic helpers “fill up” or “fill in” for each family they work for.
Every family and their employee are first invited to have a candid chat on their reasons for hiring their helper and to reflect on how this has affected their family. If permitted, the employee is also invited to share their work experiences and reflections on being a domestic helper. Thereafter, photographs will be taken based on the interview content and comfort levels of each family and employee. Each set of photographs created will be read alongside text or writing that is a combination of poetic reflections and translations of interview excerpts.
About Geraldine Kang
Geraldine Kang has exhibited in Singapore, Europe and Asia. Her most notable exhibitions include group exhibitions at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, the Taipei Artists’ Village, as well as the ifa-Galerie in Berlin and Stuttgart. She has staged solo presentations at the Institution of Contemporary Art Singapore, Grey Projects and the Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art. She was the 2011 winner of the Kwek Leng Joo Excellence in Still Photography prize, and has been featured at the Women in Film & Photography 2023 showcase, the Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards, Photographer’s Forum, Px3 and the Asian Women Photographers’ Showcase. Geraldine was a recipient of the National Arts Council Arts Scholarship for Graduate Studies in 2017 and attained her MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, The New School.
About Exactly Foundation
Exactly Foundation is a not-for-profit, trademarked registered label established by Li Li Chung to commission photographers to create works that stimulate discussion of social concerns in Singapore. Its goal is to produce new knowledge by having viewers engage with the photographs and share them with friends and family over a 2-3 month period.
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Exactly Foundation – Drink It While It’s Hot by Hu Qiren
Over the history of more than 3000 years, traditional Chinese medicine has bewildered many but has also benefitted countless. An integral part of local life, it is also a symbol of our culture and tradition.
Despite Singapore’s public healthcare arena being dominated by Western medicine, there is an increasing acceptance and recognition of the role of TCM to treat and prevent diseases. Beyond our shores, TCM is undergoing a revival as reported by the World Health Organization in its Global Report on Traditional and Complementary Medicine 2019, given the unique health challenges of the 21st century.
As an extension of my family history and research into the growing trend and practice of TCM, I create a series of images to question notions of belief systems, authenticity and more specifically, value and consumer-driven desire for better health. Centered around establishments in Albert Court Wholesale Market and Fu Lu Shou Complex, Drink It While it’s Hot invites viewers to also consider the trade and market of ancient wisdom in keeping our body functioning and in balance.
About Hu Qiren
Hu Qiren (b. 1983) is a visual artist whose practice explores the myriad forms of image making, incorporating a wide range of media, including photography, video, installation and performance. Expressing a vibrant visual vocabulary inspired by his own identity and tradition, Qiren synthesizes cultural binaries, while incessantly challenging notions of authenticity, belief and value systems. Qiren completed his MFA in Photography and Related Media at Parsons The New School for Design under the Provost scholarship in 2015 and has showcased his works at the One World Trade Center, Queens Museum, Aperture Foundation and Photoville in New York, Louvre Museum in Paris, Singapore International Photography Festival, Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, Auckland Festival of Photography and at the Theory of Clouds Gallery & Community Worldwide in Kobe, Japan. In 2016, Qiren was the grand winner of the Harper’s BAZAAR Art Prize.
About Exactly Foundation
Exactly Foundation is a not-for-profit, trademarked registered label established by Li Li Chung to commission photographers to create works that stimulate discussion of social concerns in Singapore. Its goal is to produce new knowledge by having viewers engage with the photographs and share them with friends and family over a 2-3 month period.
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Now Showing: Karaoke! Playing the ♯ and ♭
Annexe, Objectifs 14 Sep 2024, 7.30pm to 8.30pm Screening Rating: NC16 (Consumer advice: Some drug use) Entry by donation, please RSVP here.
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77 Days – An Experience Report by Sissi Kaplan
77 Days: An Experience Report portrays the artist Sissi Kaplan’s experience of isolation, as an international traveller, then as a patient confined in hospital rooms and her apartment. Even as her
loneliness intersected with great personal loss, she concocted fantasies and performances, giving
free rein to both memories and reverie. In the face of enforced and eternal separation, this story
reflects the human desire for connection through acts of creation.
About Sissi Kaplan
Sissi Kaplan is a visual artist working with photography, video and text. Her work focuses on the
fictionalisation of the everyday, employing solitude, emptiness and her own performing body to
transfigure found situations and reveal hidden aspects of human nature. Her work has been
presented at film festivals and exhibitions in Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris, Berlin, Naples,
Johannesburg, and Kuala Lumpur. She lives and works in Hong Kong.
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Stray to Stay
Chapel Gallery, Objectifs 18 – 26 Oct 2024 Free Admission
Stray to Stay is a dog-friendly group exhibition that seeks to raise awareness about the challenges that stray dogs …
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JOURNAL OF CREATIVE PURSUIT ISSUE 4 – RELATIONSHIP
In collaboration with The Picnic Basket, this issue explores the complexities of relationships with our loved ones. It tells stories about the relationships we develop with ourselves, our communities, places, environments and nature that surround us.
The team of Journal of Creative Pursuit immerses themselves in the different relationships that are developed and nurtured with culinary traditions from the lens of traditional and modern living in Southeast Asia. They present to the reader recipes to help heal a broken heart made by produce grown, found or have some levels of significance to Southeast Asia and its history.
The Picnic Basket is a Southeast Asian Food and culture publication. They cooked up this idea in early 2023 out of the desire to explore healthy eating habits that are rooted in traditions. Having a background in biological science and cultural studies, they hope to debunk myths through scientific means, tracing history and reliving the past.
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The Precariat Self Help Handbook by Pixie Tan
A compilation of research and resources for precariats to rethink the existing hierarchies of creative labour and the value of work. With critical writing, visual essays and transcripts from self-organised discussions with artists, educators and students, the publication performs both as a tool of documentation and a call to action.
The handbook includes writing and resources from Alec Dudson (Intern Magazine) Dr. Cathy Gale (Kingston University, Alternative Art School), Nicole Jesse, Natalie Davidson, Paul Bailey (London College of Communications, Jan Van Eyck Academie), Precarious Workers Brigade, Rosalie Schweiker, Robert Sollis (Europa), Toni Hollowood
Made with special thanks to Chris Ratcliff from Garudio Studiage.
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Last Act of Love by Luna Chang
“All the love that I have given is yours to keep, all the hurt and harm you have given me is mine to deal with.”
last act of love is a photobook that documents the process of moving on and nursing a broken heart. Through revisiting memories and re-experiencing sentimental encounters, the artists seeks closure and expedites their healing journey.
About Luna Chang
Luna Chang (lun3r) is a multidisciplinary artist living and based in Singapore. They specialise in fine art photography and digital media, and currently develops moving images. Their work voyages into cyberspace; delving into topics of digital immortality, queer relationships and online communities.