This duo exhibition between Billy Soh, an experienced contemporary artist, and Amanda Lapus Santos, an abstract-expressionist painter, was born out of a shared interest in the art of cyanotype printing. Cyanotype is a ‘slow-reacting photographic light-sensitive process, which produces a cyan-blue print used as a monochrome imagery applicable on a range of forms such as blueprints.’ Through experimentation on different cyanotype techniques, Soh and Santos wished to explore stories of objects and spaces that have drastically changed or have disappeared entirely. Shared anecdotes of childhood memories, snacks and family dishes, places of amusement, of worship- all reveal a juxtaposition of cultural pasts in Singapore and the Philippines, and their parallels. The process involved unearthing old photographs and recounting childhood nostalgia, and essentially discovering ways of bringing these blurred memories ‘to light’ on both canvas and paper.

Venue: LivingwithArt Midview City 18 Sin Ming Ln, #01-10/30 Midview City, Singapore 573960

When: 27 Sep - 27 Oct 2024,

By: Gallery 1819