This month, Singaporean artist Sookoon Ang (b. 1977) will complete a major new ephemeral installation work for our galleries in Tanjong Pagar. The exhibition will  include previous works in various media including video, drawing, and printmaking. Ang was recently featured in the exhibition “The Singapore Show: Futureproof” at the Singapore Art Museum.

Ang's work addresses both the physical and metaphysical worlds we dwell in, that is our spiritual, emotional, and imaginative worlds. She aims to create visual representations of the eclipse between these two realms. Ang often takes common or everyday objects and occurrences and presents them in a way that goes beyond their practical functions or mundane appearances.

Birthdays and birthday cakes; icy pink frosting and glittering things; fairytales and cartoon characters gone awry. Ang’s world is a place of contradictions, one in which the eternally youthful, uneasily and resignedly accept transience. There is, as a result, fullness and emptiness, ecstasy and anxiety.

The exhibition will be on display from 29th May until 19th June, 2012.