Professional photographer Terence Tan will be featured in his first major solo exhibition at the German Centre Singapore. Terence uses photography to create intense personal moments by deviating from widely accepted rules or guides, enticing the viewer into his surrealistic picture scapes.

Exploring new ways to ‘read the city’, he draws the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium, juxtaposing old with new urban structures, streetscapes and human activites. Nothing in his artworks keeps still, always in a state of flux, mirroring the interconnected, ever changing surroundings that we experience everyday, hence establishes a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined.

Emphasising on aesthetics, he focuses on the idea of ‘public space’ and more specifically on the idea that beauty exists everywhere, if you just take a moment, you can enjoy the space that we all conveniently overlook in our hectic daily lives. The results are reconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted.

His works urges us to renegotiate photography as being part of a reactive medium or merely an instrument of recording. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is created to conjure the realms of our imagination which is always in a state of flux.

Venue: German Centre Singapore, Level 3 East & West Lobbies, 25 International Business Park, Singapore 609916

When: 30 May - 31 Aug 2017,

By: German Centre for Industry and Trade Pte Ltd