The Spectral Faith of Our Minor Flirtations features eight Singaporean and Singapore-based artists. Put together by independent curator, Louis Ho, the show is a genre-bender, oriented around the melding of craft-based techniques and installation art. The expansive range of mediums suggested by “craft” are often relegated to the peripheries of contemporary art; even today, the label bears about it a whiff of the domestic, the functional and the un-ideational. The artists in this show were invited to consider the possibilities of craft in a spatial sense, i.e. as objects that respond to their environment. They utilised ceramic, paper, wood and textiles, among other materials, to produce works that speak to their surroundings, whether that space is physical (the interior architecture of FOST Gallery’s site) or conceptual (the discursive space occupied by “craft” in the landscape of contemporary art). In presenting the possibilities and potential of craft practices spatially, this exhibition is an experiment in collapsing two disparate genres.
Venue: FOST Gallery, 1 Lock Road #01-02, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108932
When: 11 Nov - 22 Dec 2023, 11am - 7pm Tue–Sat
By: FOST Gallery