Object . Praxis Space . Singapore . Feb 2010

Object was shortlisted for the Summer open call competition in New York in 2010

Description:

Paper, card stock, tape, plaster, putty, resin and glue

The installation/intervention converts a section of the wall of the gallery into a living membrane with layers of paint breaking out of the gallery’s whitewashed skin which reference histories of previous installations/events/happenings of the gallery and the school. The building thus reveals itself thru its  peeled layers and scars..

It is like something that has grown from a nick in the gallery wall..out of its damaged skin and spread. “The work has no clear boundaries, there's no way to say where it starts and stops, what keeps it from migrating into other “pieces.” The piece conceptually, does not stop at the front door of the gallery; look for my “pieces” in your own home. The framing devices normally put around art works are gone..the work rids itself of frame and migrates not only into other works but also the outside world.. So we have on the one hand the water damaged wall: It is trivial. It is accidental, cast-off, neglected, broken, overlooked, finite. On the other hand – beyond the wall: unending, cosmic, beloved, immaculate, infinite. The tiny next to the enormous, the trivial alongside the majestic; microocsom in its proper kinship with macrocosm.To me…the heavens reflected in an unturned mirror…”

All shown in the exhibition:

OBJECT 

group exhibition 

Praxis Space, ICA galleries Singapore

2010