Notes of Blondie Asian: Forth Art Incubator finished with artists performances and photographs exhibition at Lasalle

The Art Incubator, Lasalle, Singapore, Ang Sookoon, Excorcise me

Exorcise me by Ang Sookoon, The Art Incubator

Guiding young talents through their studies Lasalle College of Art is also giving them opportunities to get inspired and work in other countries, and then to show their ideas to public and art community. The forth year of "The Art Incubator" residency program resulted with the group exhibition, opened at Brother Joseph McNally Gallery on the eve of 14th February.

Starting from 2009 "The Art Incubator" gave opportunity to develop themselves to 13 Singaporean artists, with Ang Soo Koon, Mintio, and Bani Hayka, who were chosen in February 2012 among other candidates and successfully completed their residencies with Objectifs (Singapore), Grey Projects (Singapore) and Platform3 (Bandung, Indonesia) respectively. Jennifer Lam was curator-in-residence.

Series of photographs "Exorcise me" by Ang Soo Koon and live performance, that was held at the opening of exhibition, are reflecting artists experience of turning from child to teenager and then to adult. It discuss the unease of accepting of new emotions and feelings and the process of loosing fears.

Mintio's "Astrometric archive" is also series comparisons between city lights and space objects. Photographs taken with telescopic equipment gives illusions and mix nature and human-made, washing out borders between stars and lamps, so viewer is loosing feeling of reality and can't determine, whether it's real nature creation or just fluorescent light of the streets.

Bani Haykal is continuing to experiment with the music, voices, noises of the city and sound itself. Another part of his project work "Inside the Subject" installation became exhibition itself and was opened on the 7th February at ICA Gallery 2 with the artist's speech and performance.
Check out, what was grwon by Incubator this year, visit Brother Joseph McNally Gallery @ ICA, Lasalle until 3rd of March.

"The Art Incubator" is opened for all Singaporean artists and supported by National Arts Council and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, so apply now and, who knows, maybe your works will be exhibited next year.

Read about previous exhibitions at Brother Joseph McNally Gallery @ ICA, Lasalle College of Arts - "Dissapearing Moon" by Emma Critchley and Genevieve Chua.

Read about other works by Bani Haykal - "Inside the Subject" - until 28th of February @ ICA Gallery 2 @ Singapore Lasalle College of Arts.

Read about other past exhibition at Lasalle College of Arts - Art of Science: "Coded Transformations" and 1st Prize