Undescribed #09
DATES
Ongoing until exhibition in February
About
Undescribed is an annual platform conceived to support emerging artists based in Singapore who have recently graduated from local and overseas art institutions. The exhibition presents works that challenge and rethink current image-making practices, suggesting new ways to approach photography and the moving image within the field of art today.
Featuring
Angelica Ong (she/her) works primarily in photography and artist books. Two main threads in her practice are slow art and language. She is intrigued by ephemera, the human body, everyday subject matter (like trees, birds, eggs, and light), multilingualism, and translation. Effusing fragility and a meditative quality, her work acts as pause, breath, space, inviting the audience to wander, examine the world closely, and discover monumentality in minutiae. In addition, she seeks to decentralise the primacy of English as an institutional language by working in multiple languages, which she often leaves untranslated. Ong has exhibited work in solo and group shows at SAIC SITE Sharp Gallery (Chicago), W. Gallery (Chicago), Probe Chicago (Chicago), Mana Contemporary (Chicago), and starch (Singapore) and has been named one of the Top 26 to Watch for the Lenscratch Student Prize 2023.
IG: @catchingsunlight_
IG: @catchingsunlight_
Cheryl Louise Yip (b. 1998) is a visual artist based in Singapore. She uses the medium of photography in her exploration on the concept of fundamental human experiences such as grief, memory, rituals, and aspects of consciousness. Informed by lived experiences while confronting universal truths, her works attempt to visualise the non-material using a conceptual approach. Drawing emphasis on the photographic object, process and encounter, she explores the boundaries of a primitive, yet futuristic vision of places and people. Her recent projects exist at the merger of traditional and contemporary photography. By exploring modern ideas and imagery with historic and/or manipulated traditional processes, she addresses the ideas of time, memory, and space.
Isa Pengskul is a Thai and American conceptual artist. She is interested in challenging conventional modes of thinking about nature, culture, and the human/non-human dichotomy. Central to Isa's exploration is the recognition that humans are embedded within and constantly shaped by their surroundings.
IG: @therealvirtualpengskul
IG: @therealvirtualpengskul
Jassilyn Ng (b. 2001, Singapore) practises in the intersections of artmaking - namely photography, moving image & sound, and arts managing. Her practice focuses on the exploration of navigating through the transient nature of physical and intangible spaces.
She has recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Art at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Singapore in 2023. She has presented her works at Escape To: Exhibition at SOTA Gallery and downsizing at dblspce in 2023 where she was involved in the curatorial and logistics of the exhibition. She has also exhibited at Wake in 2021 at The Substation, a group show with her NAFA classmates.
In the graduating year of her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Art in 2023, she received the Killiney Commendation Art Prize by The Woon Brothers Foundation and the Woon Brothers Foundation Commendation Prize in 2021 for her Diploma in Fine Arts.
IG: @jassilyn_
She has recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Art at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Singapore in 2023. She has presented her works at Escape To: Exhibition at SOTA Gallery and downsizing at dblspce in 2023 where she was involved in the curatorial and logistics of the exhibition. She has also exhibited at Wake in 2021 at The Substation, a group show with her NAFA classmates.
In the graduating year of her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Art in 2023, she received the Killiney Commendation Art Prize by The Woon Brothers Foundation and the Woon Brothers Foundation Commendation Prize in 2021 for her Diploma in Fine Arts.
IG: @jassilyn_
Based in Singapore, John Marie Andrada (b.2001, Philippines) recently graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts (First Class Honours) from LASALLE College of the Arts in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London. Growing up and taking root in a foreign country, she explores notions of identity, memory and time mainly through photography, ink and experimental image making. At present, her works are on view at Haridas Contemporary, and Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. She has also been featured at Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore (2022) and FassArt Gallery, Istanbul (2021) and was part of the 9th Dali International Photography Exhibition (2021) in China. She is also a recipient of the Special Choice Award for the 41st Daegu International Grand Exhibition (2021) in Korea, as well as the Winston Oh Travelogue Award (2023).
IG: @andradamarie
IG: @andradamarie