ArTScience MuSeuM™ PreSenTS ceLeBrATinG SinGAPOre’S cOnTeMPOrArY ArT Exhibition GuidE Detail, And We Were Like Those Who Dreamed, Donna Ong Open 10am to 7pm daily | www.MarinaBaySands.com/ArtScienceMuseum Facebook.com/ArtScienceMuseum | Twitter.com/ArtSciMuseum WELCOME TO PRUDENTIAL SINGAPORE EYE Angela Chong Angela chong is an installation artist who Prudential Singapore Eye presents a with great conceptual confidence. uses light, sound, narrative and interactive comprehensive survey of Singapore’s Works range across media including media to blur the line between fiction and contemporary art scene through the painting, installation and photography. reality. She has shown work in Amsterdam Light Festival in the netherlands; Vivid works of some of the country’s most The line-up includes a number of Festival in Sydney; 100 Points of Light Festival innovative artists. The exhibiting artists who are gaining an international in Melbourne; cP international Biennale in artists were chosen from over 110 following, to artists who are just Jakarta, indonesia, and iLight Marina Bay in submissions and represent a selection beginning to be known. Like all the other Singapore. of the best contemporary art in Prudential Eye exhibitions, Prudential 3D Tic-Tac-Toe is an interactive light sculpture Singapore. Prudential Singapore Eye is Singapore Eye aims to bring to light which allows multiple players of all ages to the first major exhibition in a year of a new and exciting contemporary art play Tic-Tac-Toe with one another. cultural celebrations of the nation’s 50th scene and foster greater appreciation of anniversary. Singapore’s visual art scene both locally and internationally. 3D Tic-Tac-Toe, 2014 The works of the exhibiting artists demonstrate versatility, with many of the artists working experimentally Jeremy Sharma Jeremy Sharma works primarily as a conceptual painter. His paintings, which foreground surface and texture, are concerned ABOUT THE EXHIBITING ARTISTS with the process of constructing a painting as much as they are about the finished work. He has shown work locally and internationally Adeline Kueh at the Singapore Biennale; institute of contemporary Arts in Singapore, and Michael Adeline Kueh makes installations that Janssen Gallery in Singapore. He was also a reconsider the relationship we have with founding member of rock band Tiramisu and things and rituals around us. Her works are art collective Kill Your Television (KYTV). imbued with a sense of desire and longing, and act as modern-day totems that explore Terra Sensa is an on-going series inspired by personal histories and overlooked moments. Sharma’s investigation of pulsars. A pulsar She has exhibited at LASALLe college of the (short for pulsating radio star) is a highly Arts in Singapore; cabinet in new York; FASS magnetised, rotating neutron star. They are Art Gallery in istanbul, Turkey; next 5 Minutes remnants of collapsed stars that continue to in Amsterdam, and many other contexts emit an electromagnetic pulse as their life locally and internationally. ebbs away. Sharma obtained radiographs of Lilith, 2014 collated data from pulsars of every decade En Passant is an art project that explores since they were discovered by Jocelyn Bell fleeting run-ins and liminal spaces. The artist Burnell in 1967 in the uK. He plotted the data used to take the train from Singapore to Kuala lines into three-dimensional column slabs of Lumpur back in the 1990s. These images, shot En Passant, 2011 - ongoing ridges, peaks and valleys. The resulting work at the Singapore railway station which ceased evokes forms of terrain, early cave paintings operations in 2011, evoke a sense of nostalgia and temple wall reliefs – yet they are made whilst exploring the fleeting nature of time of lines of disappearing light. Through this and place in a changing city. work, Sharma addresses humankind’s preoccupation with the extra-terrestrial and the afterlife. Kumari Nahappan Donna Ong Kumari nahappan’s bold public Donna Ong is an installation artist from monumental sculptures have been Singapore, best known for her evocative and commissioned in Singapore, Malaysia, thought-provoking environments made from china and the Philippines. She has found objects. Her works have been exhibited contributed significantly to the artistic and extensively, including at the Jakarta Biennale cultural landscape of Singapore with a in indonesia; Kuandu Biennale in Taiwan; practice encompassing painting, sculpture Moscow Biennale in russia; Singapore Art and installation. She has shown at Mori Art Museum; and national Museum of Singapore. Museum in Tokyo; Singapore Art Museum; Seoul Art centre in Korea, and Museum And We Were Like Those Who Dreamed is rudana in indonesia, and has iconic a series of sculptural works comprised of sculptures at changi Airport, iOn Orchard, furniture and hand-cut illustrations from and the national Museum of Singapore. books. Like many of Ong’s installations, they recall the rich imagination of childhood, in The Red Trails series of paintings illustrate which every object is imbued with magic, how nahappan’s approach to contemporary fascination and meaning. in this work, hand- Red Trail Series – Power, 2007 And We Were Like Those Who Dreamed, n/A art is decisively shaped by her cultural cut images of tiny Madonnas of varying ages roots and beliefs. nahappan believes that and demeanours are accompanied by angels, red is associated with power, strength and who together create a cabinet of curiosity. victory, and it speaks to us about positive and negative energies. red is the colour Ong is also showing in the Eye Awards of blood, the bond that all human beings exhibition, and in Da Vinci: Shaping the Future, share. nahappan embarks on a laborious with her work The Forest Speaks Back II ritual of adding thin layers of paint to a commissioned by ArtScience Museum. surface, and sanding each layer down until light and form become visible. using this method, her paintings appear to be flooded with light. Gerald Leow Chia Ming Chien Gerald Leow uses found objects from the chia Ming chien began his art career as cultural landscape and reworks them a street photographer, before moving to shed light on the problematic nature into documentary photography and of authenticity, culture and identity. His photojournalism. His work has been interests include anthropology and the study published in international magazines such as of material cultures. He has shown work National Geographic, and shown at Fullerton at Singapore Art Museum and Queensland Heritage Gallery, Singapore; the institute college of Art gallery in Australia, and was of contemporary Arts, Singapore; ViViD in The Substation’s Associate Artist in 2014. Sydney; the Melbourne Jazz Festival and urbanscapes Arts Festival in Kuala Lumpur. The Decline of the Western Civilisation playfully explores popular music. it features The Wires series makes visible one of the key a figurine of Hong Kong’s Heavenly King, infrastructures of our urban environment – singer Leon Lai, being squashed by the power lines. Wires are often seen to be weight of the metal text ‘Anthrax’, the name despoiling the cityscape, but in chia’s work, of a well-known heavy metal band. The work their aesthetic qualities are revealed, The Decline of the Western Civilisation, 2010 Wires - Abstract #1, 2010 symbolises the clash of two ideologies – causing us to ponder the poetry of our Western and chinese popular culture. architectural environment. Charles Lim Jason Wee charles Lim’s work stems from his former Jason Wee is an artist and a writer. His profession as a sailor. This unique viewpoint practice takes up the dilemmas, conflicts and helps him make visible physical realities that people’s interpretation of specific histories lie hidden from our everyday experience. and spaces. He explores conundrums, He has shown work in major international enigmas, idealism and unexplored futures. exhibitions including Manifesta 7, the Shanghai He has shown work at chelsea Art Museum Biennale, Singapore Biennale and the Venice and PS122 Gallery in new York; Singapore Art Film Festival. in 2015, he will represent Museum; Asian-American Art center; and Art Singapore at the Venice Biennial. Seasons Gallery in Singapore. The SEA STATE series is drawn from Lim’s Master Plan is a result of Wee’s studies at ongoing exploration of Singapore’s maritime the Harvard Graduate School of Design in geography and history. Lim offers a compelling Architecture and Planning. it is an abstract exposure of humanity’s impact on its physical model of a city, using geometric shapes. Wee environment, highlighting the interplay writes of the work: between natural and man-made, land and sea. SEA STATE 2: Goryo 6 Ho, 2012 Master Plan, 2012 “A new plan for the city has been drawn up, in black and white. The civil servant locks up and leaves; left alone, his symbols (office buildings) have other ideas…” Jane Lee Ho Tzu Nyen Jane Lee is one of Singapore’s most noted Ho Tzu nyen creates film, video, performance contemporary artists. Trained in textile and multimedia installations. His work design, she is known for her highly tactile and appropriates the structures of epic myths to visually spectacular paintings. She explores reveal these narratives as fiction. They are the very nature of the way paintings are not merely stories, but discursive processes. constructed by treating the components of Many of his works focus on cultural histories a painting —stretcher, canvas, and the paint in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore. itself — in inventive new ways. She has shown He has shown work around the world work in galleries and museums around the including at the contemporary Art centre of world including Singapore Art Museum; Hong South Australia; Artspace in Sydney; Mori Kong Arts centre; Sundaram Tagore Gallery Art Museum in Tokyo; and Singapore Art in new York; and the contemporary Art museum, and in 2011 represented Singapore center in Vilnius, Lithuania.