CATALAN FOOTBALLERS by Lee Chang Ming
Who has the power to decide what the image means: the viewer or the creator? How does the medium of photography affect our act of remembering and interpreting the past?
Featuring a collection of found images of Catalan footballers from the 1960s.
About Lee Chang Ming
Lee Chang Ming is a Singaporean photographer interested in themes of intimacy, gender identity and the everyday. His practice contemplates the subjective act of looking and the photographic medium as a process. His work has been exhibited and published widely in Singapore and internationally. He is also the founding editor of Nope Fun, an independent publisher and platform focusing on photography and contemporary image making.
About Nope Fun
Nope Fun is an independent publisher and platform based in Singapore focusing on photography and contemporary image making.
HK DOGS POSTCARDS by Marcel Heijnen
A set of 8 postcards featuring photographs of the adorable dogs of Hong Kong, as an extension of photographer Marcel Heijnen’s highly popular Hong Kong Shop Cats and Hong Kong Garage Dogs series.
About Marcel Heijnen
Marcel Heijnen is a visual artist, designer and musician. Originally from the Netherlands, Asia has been his home since 1992. Marcel’s creativity is driven by a general curiosity about life and its meaning. He currently uses photography as the main medium for his art, exploring its boundaries in a quest for beauty and expression that goes beyond realism, but gets perhaps a little closer to truth.
Over the past few years he has had solo exhibitions at Month of Photography Asia, Vue Privée and Galeri Utama. He has participated in numerous group shows and the Affordable Art Fairs in both Singapore and Hong Kong. He is represented by Eduard Planting Gallery in Amsterdam and Blue Lotus Gallery in Hong Kong.
Marcel is a co-founder of both Chemistry – the design collective, and Artistry – the Gallery Cafe.
OBJECTIFS CREATIVES RESIDENCY 2019
The Objectifs Creatives Residency is an invitational programme that aims to give artist collectives or organisations working in film and / or photography space and opportunity to work outside their …
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bauhaus imaginista x Singapore
Presented by the Goethe-Institute Singapore, Objectifs and Singapore Heritage Society Chapel Gallery, Objectifs 23 Nov to 21 Dec 2019 Tues to Sat, 12pm to 7pm / Sun, 12pm to 4pm …
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CROSSINGS by Tay Wei Leng
Taking the exhibition Crossings as both anchor and point of departure, this publication echoes and finds new ways to see the aspirations, anxieties and inquiries that coalesced around the project. Crossings is a one-year solo exhibition collaboration between Wei Leng Tay, NUS Museum, and Curator Sidd Perez that ran at the NUS Museum from March 2018-May 2019. It featured a four-part exhibition of Wei Leng Tay’s research from 2014-2018 that spans stories of lived and inherited migration of individuals from different generations and backgrounds in Pakistan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Through a process that begins with interviews and continues with a formal interrogation of the image and voice as document, ideas of agency, relationships and nation implicit to moving between places of home are elaborated.
More a literary reader than an exhibition guide, the text weaves between letters and essays, poetry and prose. It features interlocutors from the MOVE Workshop that was organised around the exhibition, as well as various other artists, curators and academics. The text is a conscious untangling and reconsideration of the discourses of migration through notions of movement, documentation, representation, temporality, and fragmentation.
About Wei Leng Tay
Wei Leng Tay is an artist working with photography, audio and video that are made into installations and prints. Her process begins with conversations and interactions with people she meets, which inform the images and forms the projects take.
As she works with various parties on her projects, she reflects on the significance of this interaction for both herself and the other party, and how this relationship, however transient and brief, can be articulated in the work. Her works are usually based on how desires, personal relationships and histories are tied to family, society, and the state, and migration. They also reflect on the politics of perception and relation: Who is looking and how is one looking? What is being heard? Why does one, as viewer, maker, participant, feel certain ways about the work? In this way, the works also consider the impossibility of representation and knowing, adding another dimension to the complexities of identity and sense of place or displacement dealt with.
HONG KONG IS BEAUTIFUL ISN’T? ZINE by Chan Long Hei
HK has long been a tourist spot for Chinese mainlanders. Hong Kong is Beautiful, Isn’t It? Is a photo zine capturing the Chinese tourists’ behaviour in Hong Kong.
About Chan Long Hei 陳朗熹
Chan Long Hei 陳朗熹 born in 1994, is an independent photographer based in Hong Kong. With a university education background in social policy, he started his career as a photojournalist in 2016 working for different local and international media and companies. He has received several awards locally and internationally in reportage field. Apart from his career, he is now devoted to documenting social phenomenons and personal photo projects.
About ZINE COOP
ZINE COOP is an indie publishing artist collective that promotes zine culture in Hong Kong. It provides support on zine making and distribution, connecting artists with book fairs while serving as a bridge between distros and potential readers.
REVOLUTION LAUNDERETTE TEE by Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen
Cotton tees featuring a silkscreen print from the independent feature film, Revolution Launderette 『信念のメリーゴーランド』, by Singaporean filmmaking duo Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen. The self-financed gonzo film was shot in Japan over two years and is an official selection of the 30th Singapore International Film Festival 2019. Proceeds from each tee will go to supporting the production costs of the film.
Every T-shirt purchase includes a free Cassette Tape + Digital Download of the film soundtrack album
Synopsis
In Tokyo, a young man caught in some bizarre happenings sets out to beat his existence to its next punchline. He finds himself drawn deeper into the stranger side of the city, where he gets more than he bargained for. Between the ecstatic, the bleak and the ordinary, the film is a meditation on the revolutions we will for and against, in hope and futility, on the merry go round of our convictions.
About Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen
Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen are filmmakers and musicians based in Singapore whose work explores the possibilities of resistance in the presentation and production of narrativity. Their directorial work with Emoumie includes independent narrative and documentary films, shot in Asia, Australasia and Europe. As part of their work with the moving image and sonic art, the duo has also presented works and performances in sound and film in Iceland, Japan, Australia and Singapore.
In 2018, their debut docu-fiction feature Cannonball premiered at the 29th Singapore International Film Festival. Their narrative shorts have also been screened at the Darwin International Film Festival (2019), Binisaya Film Festival (2019) and Freedom Film Festival (2017).
Find out more about the film:
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WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY 2019: Artist Talks Recap
Objectifs’ fifth Women in Photography exhibition opened on 10 Oct with the theme Remedy for Rage. Three of the featured photographers — Taslima Akhter, Ashfika Rahman and Mathilde ter Heijne …
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HUNDRED DAUGHTERS HUNDRED PATIENCE HUNDRED MEALS by Kevin WY Lee
Hundred Daughters Hundred Patience Hundred Meals [百女百耐百膳] is made in memory of photographer Kevin WY Lee’s father, celebrating his life as a restauranteur. The publication takes the form of a uniquely designed photobook and cookbook duet.
The photobook comprises 60 B/W photographs of a family road trip in 2012. The cookbook features 100 recipes that Kevin WY Lee had conceived after his father’s passing in 2018. The photobook and the cookbook, the road and the kitchen, serve as a hundred metaphors for his father’s life and their family’s history of migration and diaspora – from the rice farms of Kaiping in South China, to the sugar cane fields of Fiji in the South Pacific, to the HDBs of Singapore in Southeast Asia.
This project was featured in The Business Times on 5th July 2019 and in Shin Min Daily. Read more about the project in this Q&A with Suan Chiang.
About Kevin WY Lee
Kevin WY Lee is a photographer and creative director based in Singapore. He has worked in the creative industry in Asia and Australia for over 20 years. In 2010, he founded Invisible Photographer Asia (IPA), an influential platform for Photography & Visual Arts in Asia. Through IPA, Kevin participates vigorously in photography and art across the region as a practitioner, curator and educator.
In his own practice, Kevin is interested in Singapore – her temperament, aesthetic and growing pains. A broader canvas is marked by a curiosity in mortality, and how people cope with the finiteness of being mortal.
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SIGHTLINES by Marc Nair and Tay Tsen Waye
Sightlines is a series of poems mapped onto a collection of black and white images shot on film. These are notes on passing through diverse places with an unnamed female traveler, who is both photographer and protagonist. The poems are a commentary on her perspectives, allowing the reader a sideways glance at moments that are written with and against the image.
Within each paired image and poem is a small movement. First the image, then the poem, and then the image again, winding them together into a single voice for the reader. Yet there remains a looseness in the idea of ‘looking.’ The poem is just one possible place from which to view the photograph.
The journey embarked on is not through defined cities, but places that evoke a sense of being and becoming; of wide open spaces, distant faces and shifting silhouettes. Because there is a circularity to the locations, it is the journey that becomes significant, not so much the destination. Each frozen moment reveals a fleeting present, evoking a sense of familiarity. There is an immediacy of experience, but ultimately, the reader negotiates narrative against the idea of solitude.
Sightlines can be defined as multiple unimpeded lines of sight to a subject. The traveler finds kinship in a landscape that shifts from one sightline to another. The natural perspective is outwards, but the poems also reel the self inwards, allowing the viewer a sightline towards introspection.
Longing is written into each frame. There is space between the grain to imagine.
About Marc Nair
Marc Nair has been, at various points in his life, a teacher, photographer, scriptwriter, voice-over talent, performance poet and cat slave. When he has time, he writes poetry. When he has even more time he travels. Having been to over 40 countries, he hopes to perform poetry as often as he has a good whiskey in the bars of distant cities. He has worked on collaborative projects with dancers, musicians, visual artists and painters and has released two spoken word albums set to music.
Along the way, Marc published nine collections of poetry and was a recipient of the 2016 Young Artist Award. Among other diverse pursuits, he is also the co-founder and principal photographer of Mackerel, a culture magazine.
About Tsen-Waye Tay
Tsen-Waye Tay has worked as a news reporter, editor and features producer in print, radio and television mediums in Singapore. She’s also pursued a wish to make the world a more equitable place with roles in corporate social responsibility and ethical trade. Her latest job at a non-profit, media organisation unites her passion for storytelling and its power to make a difference.
In her own time, Waye feeds her fascination for the forgotten and the transient from behind the camera; observing the breathing and the built, searching for stolen glances and textured quietude.
A series of her black and white images was published in 2013, in a solo project, Hong Kong. In 2017, she held her first exhibition, In Solitude We Trust, at the University of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca, Spain.
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