Curatorial Projects
Dwellers: A guerilla exhibition in an HDB void deck
15th December 2017
Farrer Park Blk 11
Singapore
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Dwellers was a guerrilla art exhibition by Atypical. The show explores the creative potential of the HDB (Singapore's public housing) void deck (the designated communal area on the ground floor) and highlights the objects that reside within the space. Abandoned items, underused spaces, and overlooked fauna form the subjects of study for the show.
Focused on notions of collective memory and socio-cultural icons that characterize an HDB, Dwellers comprises of design interventions, installations, and sculptures under an HDB void deck.
Participating artists are recent School of the Arts, Singapore (SOTA) graduates, Anna Claire Scola, Hsueh Kai Ling, Koh Yee Lin Calleen, Lim Zeharn, Lim Zeherng, and Ozborn Phua Kai Xi.
In An Echo We Remeber
7th - 16th April 2017
School Of The Arts Gallery
Singapore
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Each artwork in In An Echo We Remember was created by a visual arts student in response to an object owned by a resident of Whampoa, Singapore.
Through a journey of collaboration across generations - during which the residents shared with the artists the stories and sentiments behind their objects - ideas for tangible companions to those objects, slowly took shape. What became evident to the artists was that each of the objects they were working with only became more valuable over time, not necessarily in terms of their material worth, but because of the role they played in the residents' life. Over decades, they have become reminders of what moments have passed, and the tangible representations of events experienced.
The collection of artworks shown in this exhibition represent the multitude of ways that an artifact can be related to and interpreted. The end result is a series of works that retell history, retrieve memories, replicate patterns and relate the artist’s own experiences to the residents’ story.
In An Echo We Remember is a collaborative effort between the visual arts students in School of The Arts’ International Baccalaureate Career-Related Programme (IBCP) and Curating Whampoa. As a community and heritage project by the Tsao Foundation, it seeks to collect, curate and present the rich cultural and living heritage of Whampoa through a series of thematic events organized over a two-year period.
DD/MM/YYY
12th - 31st May 2016
School of The Arts Gallery
Singapore
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As the curators began to envision a space of resolved works, they questioned why this should be the case. The thought sparked the conception of DD/MM/YYYY.
DD/MM/YYYY explores the transience of time through art with the works in the exhibition each exploring the theme of 'expiries of the everyday.
Lived through calendrical cycles, human life is largely conditioned by the experience of time as a structured entity. However, time itself has multiple dimensions, and it is these dimensions and alternative measures of time that the works in DD/MM/YYYY examine. Each work is a commentary on the temporal state of human experience, reflecting upon the constant state of flux that exists within the everyday.
The supposed completion of an artwork is, in this exhibition, challenged by continuity, in the form of ongoing artistic processes, audience interpretation or interaction, or through artwork's shift in physical form through the course of its exhibition. Standing in the center of the gallery the audience is seemingly at the eye of the tornado, watching the space shift around you.
Meditations over Nature
3rd - 6th August 2017
School of The Arts Gallery
Singapore
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The collection of works highlight the relationship between meditation and the sublime, ephemerality in nature.
Exploring the meditative self- and spatial-awareness in observing the nuances of daily life, the works show an artist’s attempt to create within a state — or, to achieve a state of — meditation or for the viewer to delve into a contemplative reflection.
The curation of the works follows a narrative beginning with the works relating to the artist's personal journey of mediation to artworks that allow a self-observation and self-reflection for the audience.