Featured Artists: Bradley Foisset, Luke Heng and Hilmi Johandi Curated by Dr Charles Merewether and Joleen Loh
This exhibition offers a snapshot of some experimental practices taking place at LASALLE College of the Arts. Presenting the works of three BA(Hons) Fine Arts students of the Faculty of Fine Arts, this exhibition explores the mobility of contemporary practices as they intersect and play off the use of other media or conventions of practice.
The paintings of Luke Heng (b. 1987) are shaped by a sense of meditation about the very approach to the practice itself. In his recent paintings, Heng uses the concept of Eastern philosophy and Chinese medicine to tackle the formal issues of painting such as harmony, proportionality and duality. Notably, he is interested in the affinities between painting and the concept of Yin-yang, a fundamental principle of Chinese Herbology. His work aspires toward monochrome painting if only to disrupt its purity of surface with subtle modulations of color and appearance of gaps, lines and discrete breaks in the surface.
Hilmi Johandi (b. 1987) explores the differences and relations between painting and film by way of their hybridization, an interplay through which he examines representation and medium. While his videos allude to the gestural qualities of painting, his paintings are informed by the filmic methods and language of cinema. These paintings become animated, entering a mobile narration of storytelling in which the human figure and space begin to merge and separate again into distinct figurations of line and color.
Bradley Foisset (b. 1979) explores the constructed dichotomy between man and nature. His recent work employs materials that are taken from the land and rivers of Singapore that are being eroded and destroyed. Drawing upon the history of ropes which were first braided from vines, Foisset’s installation constructed with both rope and vine seeks to disrupt the hierarchy between what is considered manmade and organic. Bringing these materials together, Foisset challenges the concept of nature as divorced from culture, and seeks to propose a non-hierarchical and interconnected relationship between them.
INTERPLAY, Art Stage Singapore, 24 – 27 January 2013, Booth P11 For more details, visit institutions
