This is an art exhibition co-organised by Viridian Art House
and The Lady Between the Lines Art Agency bring together 17 Singapore-based
artists to present a group show of different forms and mediums. The show is intended to create a platform for
conversations between the artists and their audiences about their practices and
interests in art. The Viridian Art House is a newly established art space
opened in Feb 2012. It is being managed by a group of local artists who are
inspired to bring their enthusiasm to the art community. This is located in a
petite building next to Fort Canning Park Office commonly known as the
Foothills in the park.
I have created a series of sculptures displayed in the form
of an installation art situated in a small room in the Utama Gallery. I have an
idea to make my sculptures responsive to its surrounding such as the ambient
light, the people voices and their movements. They have lights in them so that
they could make their "conversations" through blinking and glowing
with different hues and light intensities.
I have designed many little white houses of different forms
and sizes. Each house has a flower trying to emerge, growing and reaching out
to the sky. A house will have its lone world kept in its own flower pot. It is probably
my expression of my yearned desire for freedom.
Every flower pot means a little vessel in life containing something
trying to struggle and emerged.
This is my first attempt to make sculptures in a totally new
perspective. In the past, I believe that the sculpture has to be created with
the hands of the sculptor. The hand and its working with the materials is a
sacred art process. In this new series of work, the creation of each sculpture
is through a machine known as the 3D printer. My work is done by creating a CAD
design in the computer and the printer will make the work for me. It defies my
old notion of the role of the sculptor as the creator of forms.
It is a matter of facing new challenges when we make new
inventions in the pace of technology. It will be foolish not to experiment in
new ways that may make possible new creations.
