• News
  • Add Your Events
  • Support & Advertise
  • Contact Us

Logo

Navigation
  • Art News
  • Art Listings
    • Current Exhibitions
    • Upcoming Exhibitions
    • Auctions
    • Workshops
    • Talks
    • Guided Tours
    • Festivals, Markets, Parties
    • Kids’ & Families’ Events
    • Performances
    • Film
    • Open Calls
  • Art Venues

Progressive Disintegrations

Wei Leng Tay, Untitled, 2020, archival pigment print, 55x70cm. © Courtesy the artist.

Objectifs’ final major exhibition of 2020, opening at the Chapel Gallery on 10 December, will feature an installation of new mixed-media works by three Singaporean artists.

Titled Progressive Disintegrations, the show addresses what is perceived through an image, and asks how a photograph, as document, object and artefact, can be re-examined through a series of transformations, fragmentation and remaking. In the works included:

  • Chua Chye Teck photographs and prints fluorescences of mould on planks of wood. The viewer is challenged to reconsider ephemeral organisms often regarded as destructive and unimportant as primary aspects shaping their relationship with the photographs, while also reconsidering the materiality of the photographic print.
  • Hilmi Johandi works with a collection of postcards and posters of tourism in Singapore from the 1980s-90s in his reimagining / imaging of these scenes. In doing so, he reconsiders the sociopolitical constructions within the images, and the transformation of the subjects’ roles.
  • Wei Leng Tay works with photographic slides from a family archive of early 1970s pictures depicting her family and their migration from Australia to Malaysia to Singapore. In these slides, the effects of time have degraded the image, leaving behind fragments of what had been. By digitally rephotographing and rendering the original analogue slide images into new photographs, she seeks to articulate a narrative that considers the lost image content, the migratory dislocation within the image, as well as the slides’ degradation.

In so doing, the artists seek to open up ways of re-looking at and thinking about what and who we live with, and how photographs inscribe ways of being. In their practice, all three artists ask how images are used and understood. In their works, they ask viewers to reconsider what they are looking at.

Opening (Extended Hours): Thu 10 Dec, 12pm to 9pm

Venue: Chapel Gallery, Objectifs, 155 Middle Road, Singapore 188977

When: 10 Dec 2020 - 21 Feb 2021, Tues to Sat, 12pm to 7pm / Sun, 12pm to 4pm; Closed on Mondays and public holidays

By: Objectifs Gallery

Share this story:
  • tweet

Comments are closed.

Art Calendar

SAGG on Facebook

Singapore Art & Gallery Guide

3 days 2 hours ago

theindependent.sg/national-gallery-singapore-reveals-untold-legacy-of-asian-artists-in-modern-art/

National Gallery Singapore reveals untold legacy of Asian artists in modern art - Singapore News

This new art show tells the story of Asian artists in 1920s Paris that most people have never heard.

View on Facebook
Share

Singapore Art & Gallery Guide

3 days 2 hours ago

thesmartlocal.com/read/retro-places-singapore/

14 Retro Places In Singapore To Feel Like You've Travelled Back In Time

Retro's back in fashion, so here's a list of 14 retro places in Singapore you can go to to immerse yourself in an old-school charm.

View on Facebook
Share

Singapore Art & Gallery Guide

2 weeks 1 day ago

www.businesstimes.com.sg/lifestyle/arts-design/national-gallery-singapores-ink-show-ambitious-unsatisfying

National Gallery Singapore’s ink show is ambitious – but unsatisfying

[SINGAPORE] National Gallery Singapore’s new ink exhibition sets out with an ambitious goal: to show ink not as a fixed tradition but as a living, changing language shaped by calligraphers, poets, abstractionists and experimental artists over time and across cultures. Read more at The Business Tim...

1
View on Facebook
Share

Singapore Art & Gallery Guide

2 weeks 6 days ago

www.littledayout.com/ocean-diving-into-the-unknown-exhibition-alliance-francaise-singapore/

Ocean: Diving Into The Unknown At Alliance Française Singapore

Take a dive into the blue world at Alliance Française’s latest exhibition, Ocean: Diving into the Unknown. A collaboration with the French National Museum of

View on Facebook
Share

Singapore Art & Gallery Guide

4 weeks 1 day ago

www.eco-business.com/press-releases/uob-partners-sg-eco-fund-to-bring-sustainability-and-art-to-the-community/

UOB partners SG Eco Fund to bring sustainability and art to the community

UOB, one of Singapore’s leading banks, and the SG Eco Fund have announced a two-year partnership to drive greater community awareness of sustainability and art.

View on Facebook
Share

Singapore Art & Gallery Guide

1 month 6 days ago

www.straitstimes.com/life/arts/eight-singapore-indie-booksellers-launch-bookshop-sg-as-amazon-alternative

Eight Singapore indie booksellers launch Bookshop.sg as Amazon alternative

The online store, which launches on May 14, describes itself as an act of "radical cooperation". Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

1
View on Facebook
Share

Singapore Art & Gallery Guide

1 month 1 week ago

www.asiaone.com/singapore/over-50k-gold-coins-cash-stolen-veteran-artist-koeh-sia-yongs-home-while-he-was-bali

Over $50k in gold coins, cash stolen from veteran artist Koeh Sia Yong's home while he was in Bali

SINGAPORE — While veteran Singaporean artist Koeh Sia Yong was away in Indonesia for nearly two months earlier in 2025, his bedroom drawers back home were emptied of more than $50,000 in valuables. The 87-year-old returned to his two-bedroom unit at The Interlace condo in Depot Road on March 15 to...

View on Facebook
Share

Singapore Art & Gallery Guide

1 month 1 week ago

danamic.org/2025/05/11/order-is-essential-what-we-learnt-about-fernando-zobel-at-his-national-gallery-exhibit/

Order is Essential: What We Learnt about Fernando Zóbel at his National Gallery Exhibit

Come learn with us about the life, thoughts and works of Fernando Zóbel in a truly transcontinental exhibition that's open right now!

View on Facebook
Share

Singapore Art & Gallery Guide

1 month 3 weeks ago

www.businesstimes.com.sg/lifestyle/arts-design/how-one-man-made-nude-art-possible-singapore

How one man made nude art possible in Singapore

Yeo Workshop celebrates the legacy of Solamalay Namasivayam, who fought for nude figure drawing when it was still considered 'indecent'. Today, nude figure drawing is a cornerstone of artist training in Singapore Read more at The Business Times.

1
View on Facebook
Share

Singapore Art & Gallery Guide

2 months 2 weeks ago

www.harpersbazaar.com.sg/lifestyle/robert-zhao-hong-kong-art-week

Robert Zhao Might Be One Of The Best Singaporean Artists That You’ve Never Heard Of, Until Now

We caught up with the creative mastermind behind CHARLES & KEITH’s latest Artist In Residence project.

2
View on Facebook
Share
  • News
  • Add Your Events
  • Support & Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy & Terms
© 2020. Singapore Art & Gallery Guide
We use cookies that are necessary for the website's functions. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.OkNoRead more