image: Film still from The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music. The Propeller Group, 2014

Spirit of Place
Ang Song Nian (Singapore), Liao Jiekai (Singapore), Mark Wong (Singapore), Sutthirat Supaparinya (Thailand), The Propeller Group (Vietnam/USA), and Yosep Anggi Noen (Indonesia)
15 Jul – 25 Sep 2016
Jendela (Visual Arts Space)

Spirit of Place comes from the Latin term “genius loci” and refers to the essence of a place that gives it complexity and uniqueness of identity. Not an immutable concept, it evolves over time, responding to changes caused by natural phenomena and human culture. Landscape is a critical way we experience place: physically sited within it in both its natural and man-made forms, we also understand it as a way of framing space in relation to the societies and histories it emerges from. Inherently subjective, landscape always suggests a point of view.

Through sound, photography, and the moving image, the artists in this exhibition explore and imagine place and landscape as repositories of meaning as well as sites in flux. Their works map invisible and intangible aspects of different landscapes, while revealing how their mediums are respectively marked and manipulated by the environment. As a living space and form of representation, place and landscape invite continual discovery, shaping and interpretation.

Artist Talk by Sutthirat Supaparinya
15 Jul 2016, Fri
7 – 8pm
Esplanade Recital Studio Foyer (Walk through Jendela)

Artist Talk by Liao Jiekai
13 Aug 2016, Sat
3 – 4pm
Esplanade Recital Studio Foyer (Walk through Jendela)

Artist Talk by Ang Song Nian
13 Aug 2016, Sat
4 – 5pm
Esplanade Recital Studio Foyer (Walk through Jendela)

Presentation on landscape in Singapore cinema
Toh Hun Ping
24 Sep 2016, Sat
3 – 4pm
Esplanade Recital Studio Foyer (Walk through Jendela)

Artist Talk and Performance by Mark Wong
24 Sep 2016, Sat
4 – 5pm
Jendela (Visual Arts Space)

Admission is free.

When: 15 Jul - 25 Sep 2016,

By: Esplanade