VWFA Singapore is proud to present the gallery’s first solo exhibition by up and coming young Singaporean artist Genevieve Chua. Actively exhibiting in the Singaporean art world since 2003, Chua’s practice explores the psychologies of fear through the narratives of Southeast Asian horror. Multi-disciplinary in nature, her latest solo Birthing Ground Not A Sound looks at what lies within the silences of subterranean spaces.

The exhibition begins just after an imagined flood has washed large quantities of earth from a mysterious underground chamber onto the surface level. This seemingly unconscious matter then takes on a life of its own as it is hypnotically drawn back to its point of origin. Forming the necessary life force of curious human forms, incubating with the depths of the earth, each particle takes on a primal significance as they go back to ground. Chua’s work marks this slow retreat through a series of disorientating images that chart rhythm and form through an alternative approach to space. Creating a sense of liminality or in between state of ritualistic change, the exhibition provokes a tense anticipation of who, or more importantly what, emerges when super natural forces are disturbed.