Courtesy Mary Summerbell, 2018

Bit rot presents final works by 10 graduating students from LASALLE’s influential MA Fine Arts programme. Featuring a diverse range of concepts and techniques, and media including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and photography, the exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to experience the very best of emerging contemporary art practice.

The 2018 MA Fine Arts candidates entered the programme in January 2017 at different stages of their artistic careers. They have worked independently and collaboratively, with the support of LASALLE lecturers and industry guests, to challenge and extend their practice through sustained research, artistic experimentation and dialogue.

The title of this year’s exhibition, Bit rot, refers to the deterioration in the integrity of computer data stored on storage media over time. Usually considered a negative process resulting in loss or corruption, bit rot describes a process that can be significant in its effects while hidden from view. Here the term is used as a metaphor for the transformation that occurs slowly, often unseen, in artists and their practice. In emphasising matter’s vulnerability to change over time, the exhibition evokes the fluidity of the art-making process. Bit rot also references our contemporary condition of instability through several works that incorporate contingent structures and materials.

Artists: Didier Mathieu, Gemma Kearney, Green Zeng, Henry Lee, Hilmi Johandi, Liana Yang, Mary Summerbell, Hyung Min, Tan Ngiap Heng and Yen Phang

Venue: Gallery 1, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE, 1 McNally Street

Opening date: Fri 20 Apr 2018, 6:30pm

Exhibition period: Sat 21 Apr – Sun 6 May 2018

Opening hours: 12:00pm – 7:00pm, Tue to Sun
Closed on Mon and public holidays

When: 21 Apr - 6 May 2018,

By: LASALLE College of the Arts