Art
Design


Boundless by the time I cried, I built your walls around me
2021 painted lines, covered plains is a duo show by Sufian Samsiyar and Victoria Tan. Using various vestiges of construction sites, showrooms and locales within Singapore, the works become manifestations of these transitions, temporal ruins and desires. A combination of photographic works and site-specific installation, painted lines, covered plains proposes detached views of the constant impermanent landscape of Singapore.


Text Moses Tan
Images Jonathan Tan



White Noise
2021painted lines, covered plains is a duo show by Sufian Samsiyar and Victoria Tan. Using various vestiges of construction sites, showrooms and locales within Singapore, the works become manifestations of these transitions, temporal ruins and desires. A combination of photographic works and site-specific installation, painted lines, covered plains proposes detached views of the constant impermanent landscape of Singapore.


Text Moses Tan
Images Jonathan Tan




Leave me now, return tonight
2019
In 1993, avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp made a reference to the bachelor machine as a jumble of mechanical implements and schematic diagrams In the exhibition, the bachelor of this art-historical definition becomes the “bachelorette”, echoing the song written and released by Björk in 1997.

Inspired by the artistic concept of the bachelor machine, the exhibition highlights the ideas and physical labour of these artists’ work.


Text Caterina Riva
Bachelorette Machines ↗





From Emptiness to Everything
2019In 1993, avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp made a reference to the bachelor machine as a jumble of mechanical implements and schematic diagrams In the exhibition, the bachelor of this art-historical definition becomes the “bachelorette”, echoing the song written and released by Björk in 1997.

Inspired by the artistic concept of the bachelor machine, the exhibition highlights the ideas and physical labour of these artists’ work.


Text Caterina Riva
Bachelorette Machines ↗




 I Am All the Days that You Choose to Ignore
2016Undescribed is an annual platform conceived to present out local emerging voices with the hope of supporting the next generation of image-makers. In this edition, six young artists from various art academies showcase their new explorations in the medium of photography with prints, video, and installation. Undescribed aptly labels the “unknown” stage in the life of these young creators, a period of potential and experimentation.

The selection is made by SP Tan, chairman of DECK advisory board, Robert Zhao Renhui, visual artist, and Gwen Lee, director of DECK.


Text DECK
Undescribed #2  ↗




Adopted Lands
2016 Adopted Lands explores concepts of belonging and the physicalities of adoption of foreign soil in Singapore through borders, boundaries and blurred lines.



Chasing Celia
Chasing Celia is a speculative design piece exploring the impact of human intervention on biodiversity through the now extinct Pyrenean Ibex.

The project aims to provoke critical reflection on the consequences of human intervention on nature, using myth as a vehicle to raise awareness about ecological fragility and the role of technology in preserving and/or manipulating life.

In collaboration with Maria Jose Chaud.




Graphic Design
Graphic and layout design for print including exhibition collaterals,
catalogues and menus.



Packaging Design
Graphic and layout design for packaging and printed material, encompassing product packaging, labels, and brand collaterals.





Photography
Photographs encompassing a broad spectrum of travel and observation.





Side Quests
A collection of exploratory projects across food, illustration, and other interdisciplinary practices.

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