This exhibition brings together an eclectic group of artists whose practices consistently engage the field of visual associations, opening a distinctive poetic vein. The notions of time, space and memories are explored in a way where fictions and reality meet, meanings shift, and past and present fuse. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, the artists seduce the viewer into a world of fabricated illusions that articulate the stream of human drama in order to reflect on our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.

Artists such as April Ng Kiow Ngor, Chiew Sien Kuan, Chua Chon Hee, Hoe Say Yong, Lynn Lim, Ng Siok Hoon, Oh Chai Hoo, Terence Tan and Raymond Yap explore the concept of landscape and nature in an evocative manner; amplifying the astonishment of the encounter by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil lyrical imaginaries sitting on the edge between nostalgia and alienation. The curiosity in the individual’s psychological and emotional states are manifested in the works by Boo Sze Yang, Lim Soo Ngee, Ling Yang Chang, Soh Chee Hui and Yeo Siak Goon, where subjective memories of the artists are harvested to construct images of disconcerting beauty.

The 14 artists are April Ng Kiow Ngor, Boo Sze Yang, Chiew Sien Kuan, Chua Chon Hee, Lim Soo Ngee, Lynn Lim Li Yin, Ng Siok Hoon, Oh Chai Hoo, Raymond Yap, Terence Tan Chee Wah, Soh Chee Hui, Hoe Say Yong, Ling Yang Chang and Yeo Siak Goon.

-Utterly Art

Image: © Chiew Sien Kuan
Courtesy of the artist and Utterly Art