Postcards From My Darling Love is Ripple Root’s twelfth solo show, a series of work inspired by the 1965 film Chinta Kasih Sayang (‘My Darling Love’), directed by Hussein Haniff. It is the prolific artist duo’s first time using film to be so closely inspired by. With the various Singaporean backdrops the film is set against, there’s a great sense of nostalgia and pride watching it, because here we are 61 years after the film release, so much and yet nothing much has changed in this time. Picking up on the protagonist, a workaholic painter who is more intent on making money out of his art than showing concern and affection for his wife, it is that familiar ‘Singaporean financial struggle’ meets risqué-camp quality, a lighthearted sense of humour runs throughout the film and artworks. Despite individual domestic and familial responsibilities the takeaway is how simply human we all are at the end of the day, with deep-seated desires for affection and attention. And sometimes work resurfaces as that ‘first love”.
Venue: Objectifs Lower Galleries 1 & 2, 155 Middle Road, Singapore 188977
Hours:
Tue – Sat, 12pm – 7pm
Sun, 12pm – 4pm
When: 18 - 28 Jun 2026,
By: Objectifs
