20 students presented their Paintings, drawings, mix-media, graphic design and multimedia works, and to be honest as art lover, I could appreciate and understand their works much more, than those from design. So I spent most of the time at that Gallery.
Among interesting works, that caught my eye, there was series of self-portraits by Jasmine Tan, who paints parts of her body in very expressive manner attracting additional viewers attention by writing some statements on the paintings as well. Have a look at the picture below and judge by yourself, but I was quite impressed by interpretation of holy phrase, that was written on teeth with brackets resulted getting literal and inversion meanings.
I loved Poja Kanade mixed-art tour around Tiong Bahru neighborhood, where he got pictured HDB apartments and shop houses in unusual angle - spiral staircases, rest areas, those old apartments, that today are put in plan to be replaced with super modern steel-glass condos. I do as well a lot of pictures, when I walk around that districts. And that mixed art works help us to conserve memory and attract our attention to beauty of constructions, that we pass by everyday without noticing.
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History of Geylang Serai,
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There were the same conservation memories about Katong, Geylang and other parts of old traditional Singapore, where you still can try the best laksa in the city or prey in the old mosque. After seeing that works, reading every fact, I felt like I went to museum to learn history of Singapore. It was pleasant and unexpected benefit to my art evening. A little bit of history, that I always keen to know, especially about the place, where I live.
Desiree Tham presented interesting series "Elements of Life", that combine different technique, such as painting, writing, pressed images to show the concept of our fast moving and developing life through the juxtaposing of modern and old almost forgotten objects. Energy tower and bicycle, slow moving material vehicle and fast invisible energy, that is in fast times more powerful, than even human, who will cycle.
The same kind of confrontation can be seen in works of
Siti Aisyah Bte Ahmad "The Rules", who is showing road with a lot of signs, that limit your move, but at the same time the road is all time symbol of life and development. And it's pity, but true, that we have a lot of guides and restrictions in our life. Also the turn of the road means unknown change, waiting for the walker.
I couldn't pass without comment my favorite kind of art, where artists idea is expressed through the food, so here is work "Sundwiched Society" by Joanne Goh Gek Noi, who feels and shows, that our society is just a sandwich, where everybody is just squeezed together without any room for air. Interesting approach and of course, the sandwich doesn't look tasty, which clearly express artists attitude towards society. Check as well my favorite food media works, deeply disturbing your feeling and disgusting to the point - smashed food by
Erika Norris showcased at the
Magic Bullet exhibition by graduates of
Faculty of Fine Arts Masters Programme from
Lasalle College of Arts at @
ICA Gallery 2, that was part of
The Lasalle Show, different parts of which I was visiting during last school year.
Read about other exhibitions at
Lasalle College of Arts, that I've visited during the year of
The Lasalle Show -
Artism,
"The Art Incubator 4" exhibition,
Art of Science: "Coded Transformations" and 1st Prize,
Parallax Between_Borders: Singapore_China,
Shifting between surfaces,
Disappearing Moon,
Inside the Subject
But lets return to NAFA. One of the last works, that got my attention was Mind by Wileen Png. According to artists statement, she painted car park, that she was passing through during many years. And I can see in one paint many changes are reflected, with objects sometimes overlapping each other, that gives you feeling of movement and even movie watching. Color inversion - schematic, inaccurate, white on black also gives you impression of minute, unstable world. You can feel, that you pry into somebody's life without asking permission. white paint, almost like chalk gives you feeling, that nothing is stable in this life and can be removed easily, as well as gives background about artist, who just turned to be adult. The painting recalled my own feeling and memories about childhood and time, when I was painting the yard court with color chalks, showing everything I see - dogs and other children with moms, cars, trees and everything, that was surrounding me.
There more works and interesting ideas from other graduates, I just highlighted those, that caught my eye. But maybe you will find something more interesting there, so it's worthy to visit by yourself!
Exhibition is up until 15th of June, at Lim Hak Tai Gallery 2, NAFA Campus 1, 80 Bencoolen Street from 11 am to 8 pm. Please, go ahead and have a look, it's free.
You can also get info about exhibition graduates exhibitions of other Faculties and programmes at
NAFA web-site. Stay tuned and next graduation and exhibition called
Connected is from
Department of Design & Media Diploma Graduates and will be opened on the 24th of June, 6.30 pm at Galleries 1 & 2, Lim Hak Tai Gallery, NAFA Campus 1, 80 Bencoolen Street, running until 29th of June from 11 am to 7 pm. See you there!
For now, below there are some pictures from the venue for you to have a overview before you head there by yourself and appreciate young talents design works and ideas.
