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Art Basel Hong Kong 2023

Art Basel Hong Kong 2023
Date: March 21 - 25, 2023
Venue: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Booth 3C09

Exhibitor: FOST Gallery
Participating artists: John Clang, Phi Phi Oanh, Donna Ong, Grace Tan, Yeo Tze Yang, Ian Woo

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Art SG 2023

Art SG 2023

Participating artists: Kray Chen, John Clang, Phi Phi Oanh, Donna Ong, Bernado Pacquing, Luis Antonio Santos, Wyn-Lyn Tan, Ian Woo, Yeo Tze Yang

Date: January 11 - 15, 2023

Venue: Marina Bay Sands, Booth BE06

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So this is what it feels like to be free

 

So this is what it feels like to be free
a solo exhibition curated by Kong Yen Lin

Exhibition Date: January 7 - March 4, 2023
Artist and Curator’s Talk: January 7 (Sat), 3 - 4pm
Opening: January 7 (Sat), 3 -7pm
Venue: FOST Gallery, Singapore


In conjunction with Singapore Art Week 2023, FOST Gallery is proud to present So this is what it feels like to be free, a solo exhibition premiering three new bodies of work by visual artist John Clang. The presentation marks a particularly introspective and productive phase in his artistic practice influenced by his recent foray into the realm of filmmaking.

Surveillance is the dominant nomenclature of our image-centric lives, ever since network culture has profoundly transformed ways we perceive and relate to the world. In this solo exhibition presenting three new bodies of work, visual artist John Clang addresses the complexities of personal privacy, self-knowledge and identity formation by surveying delicate interstices between the private, public and secret. Working at the crossroads of observation, intervention, and performance, he contemplates on how one's inner and outer subjectivities and realities are crystallised across diverse social and historical milieus. Adopting a constellation of methodologies spanning the esoteric to quotidian – from extrapolating the ubiquitous post-it stuck onto laptop web cameras for privacy to individual pursuits of freedom, to the practice of an ancient wisdom shedding light on one’s destiny – this showcase studies the permutations in which the self can be multiplied, reconstituted and deepened.

5th Passage: In Search of Lost Time

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5th Passage: In Search of Lost Time, a group exhibition curated by John Tung

Exhibition Date: September 24 - October 17, 2021
Venue: Gajah Gallery Singapore
Artists: Chu Chu Yuan, Eve Tan, Jason Lim, John Clang, Kai Lam, Ray Langebach, Siew Kee Liong, Susie Lingham, Susie Wong, Suzann Victor

In 1991, 5th Passage was founded by a small group of emerging Singaporean artists who strived to bring the arts to the public. Setting up their space in the fifth-floor passageway of Parkway Parade, Singapore’s first major suburban mall, 5th Passage situated itself within the ‘ready-made public’ of civic centres, and became Singapore’s first corporate-sponsored artist-run initiative. A number of substantial exhibitions, events, and activities were realised while the collective operated between 1991 and 1996. They experimented with varied site-specific, contemporary mediums, such as performance art and installation, and addressed a wide range of social concerns, from race, gender and sexuality, to the environment. In doing so, they sparked urgent conversations that spoke to the lived realities of their public.

Yet, the historicisation of 5th Passage remains conspicuously absent from dominant narratives of the country’s art history. Recognising that the remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were, 5𝙩𝙝 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙜𝙚: 𝙄𝙣 𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙇𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 looks to memories of the collective’s existence to reconstitute a basis for establishing the initiative’s significance within the wider arc of the country’s arts and cultural development. Bringing together artists who had presented works under its auspices, this exhibition revives in the wider public consciousness the plethora of programmes that articulated the initiative’s ideals and aspirations, while intimating the passage of time that has since elapsed. As a consequence, the exhibition begs the question: to what extent did the delay in historicisation result in material harm to the corpus of 5th Passage?

FAMILY AFFAIRS. FAMILY IN CURRENT PHOTOGRAPHY

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FAMILY AFFAIRS. FAMILY IN CURRENT PHOTOGRAPHY, a group exhibition curated by Ingo Taubhorn

Exhibition Date: April 2 – July 11, 2021 postponed due to Covid-19, new date: April 20 - July 4, 2021 *opens May 18 and extended through July 18, 2021
Venue: House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Artists: Nancy Borowick, Katharina Bosse, Elinor Carucci, John Clang, Daniel W. Coburn, Neil DaCosta, Siân Davey, Jaimie Diamond, Vincent Ferrané, Gustavo Germano, Eric Gyamfi, Lucia Herrero, Lebohang Kganye, Grégoire Korganow, Katharina Meyer, Dario Mitidieri, Lee-Ann Olwage, Trent Parke, Linn Schröder, Daniel Schumann, and Akihito Yoshida.

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