Chris Chong Chan Fui, Pantlingia lamrii, from the series ENDEMIC , 2015
Sabah born Malaysian Chris Chong Chan Fui’s dynamic artistic practice cuts across various platforms, from moving image, painting, photography and installations. Chris queries society’s uncanny yet seemingly normalised relationships between natural and man-made constructs of and in the everyday. They suggest a deep-seated appetite for control, inevitably determining what survives ‘human preference’ above ‘natural selection’.
Presented in this exhibition are parts of BOTANIC, first created for Singapore Biennale 2013, and ENDEMIC, featuring mechanised sculptures representing possibly extinct Bornean plants. ENDEMIC was commissioned for the Secret Archipelago exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2015. Both works were developed with Chan + Hori Contemporary’s Curatorial Director Khairuddin Hori.
Venue: Chan + Hori Contemporary, 6 Lock Road, #02-09 Singapore 108934
When: 29 Jun - 23 Jul 2017,
