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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.

Singapore Panorama, Singapore International Film Festival 2022

Absent Smile

World Premiere at Singapore Panorama, Singapore International Film Festival 2022

Ten years after an elderly couple takes a special portrait with their absent son who lives overseas, their sense of yearning grows into a habit where long distance phone calls and mundane repetitions are temporary remedies to a complex longing.

Screening: Thursday, December 1, 2022
Time: 6:30pm

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Tickets on sale on November 2, 2022
Venue: Golden Village Plaza, Hall 9
Address: 68 Orchard Road, Plaza Singapura, Singapore 238839
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The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is the longest-running film festival in Singapore. The festival has a focus on showcasing international films and providing a global platform for the best of Singapore and Southeast Asian cinema.

Singapore Panorama: Presenting the latest feature and short films that showcase talents in local filmmaking, with its finger on the pulse of the most exciting developments in Singapore cinema.

https://sgiff.com/films/absent-smile/

Thursday Cinema "What is normal, anyway?"

The program reflects upon shared concerns of our current time, while accentuating emerging possibilities of the ways we relate to the world. Posed as a rhetorical question, What is normal, anyway? tackles the idea of social constructs through unique settings of diverse cultures, and examines how established ways affect the complex and vast systems we live in. Bringing the notion of normality into question through individual and collective narratives, the selection also highlights the potential of storytelling in envisioning the future. 

 

A Love Unknown

Screening: Thursday, June 30, 2022
Time: 7pm
Venue: SALT Beyoğlu Walk-in Cinema

 
 
 

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