artists
Works
- Journey of a Yellow Man Nº 13: Fragmented Bodies/Shifting GroundBen Wickes, Lee Wen, 1999
- Happy Birthday SharonGozde & Russel Zehnder, 2002
- Non-Art ObjectsMichael Lee, 2001
- 4A Florence CloseRoyston Tan, 2002
- MotherRoyston Tan, 2001
- The Ground I Stand OnSherman Ong, 2002
- Rogers Park Tan Pin Pin, 2000
- VerticalTan Pin Pin, 2000
- Hui ShuiTania Sng, 1999
- Little Girl ShoesTania Sng, 2001
Curator's text Yuni Hadi, 2003
Signs, Sights and Sounds
As the Singapore film community develops, so does a voice for the generation that is able to express themselves through the medium of film and video. The ideas of home, memory, navigation and oppression are explored in these works. Using signs, sights and sounds through a visual landscape of images to express a deeper desire to be heard and seen, the films capture a sense of loss and loneliness of a generation seduced and pursued by a material consciousness that ends up in an explosion of unfiltered thoughts. This is a generation dealing with the material demands of society and the struggle of maintaining one’s true self — which sometimes means trying to hold on to the past. What is translated in these works is a fresh Singapore voice, reflecting different visual styles. It is hard to say what exactly is a Singaporean film or video because it is a conundrum even for its practitioners. It’s all the confusion, desperation and exasperation rolled into a journey. And that journey is the voice we see today.
ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL VIDEOBRASIL, "Displacements - 14th International Eletronic Art Festival": 22nd September to 19th October 2003, pp. 263, São Paulo, Brazil, 2003.