Loke Hong Seng, On Our Way to Pasar Malam, 1968/2015, Digital Print on Archival Cotton Paper, 59.5 x 88.7 cm, Edition of 15. Copyright the Artist.
Coinciding with the Singapore International Photography Festival 2026, VITRINE by Yeo Workshop presents What Remains: A Dialogue across time, an exhibition placing the photographic works of Singaporean artists Wei Leng Tay and Loke Hong Seng in a cross-generational dialogue. Bringing Loke’s black-and-white records of a city undergoing rapid transformation into conversation with Tay’s materially experimental approach to photography, the exhibition asks how images shape memory—and how they continue to influence the histories we inherit.
One of the pioneers of Singapore street photography, Loke Hong Seng documented the country’s nation-building decades of the 1960s and 1970s. His images trace industrialisation and urban change through scenes of kampungs, bumboat coolies, trishaws and samsui women, alongside construction sites, emerging HDB estates and the contours of a modernising skyline. More than nostalgic records, they are social portraits of a nation being remade.
Tay approaches photography from a later moment, when the medium’s status as evidence can no longer be taken for granted. Working across photography, audio, video and installation, she examines how images are made, handled, remembered and reinterpreted. Through archival material, cyanotype and contact-printing processes, digital imaging and physical manipulation, Tay brings private memory into contact with wider social histories.
Venue: Vitrine, OUE Downtown Gallery, 6A Shenton Way, #01-36.
When: 21 Sep - 2 Dec 2026, Monday to Friday: 12pm - 5pm
By: Yeo Workshop
