FANTASY ISLANDS
Opening Reception: 10 January 2017, 6-10pm
Performance/ Ceremony/ Ritual by Fyerool Darma: 10 January 2017, 6pm
Exhibition duration: 11 - 26 January 2017
Chapel Gallery, Objectifs Center for Film and Photography
155 Middle Road, 188977
12-7pm
Join us for the opening of Fantasy Islands, a curatorial project that looks at the manifold relations between Batam and Singapore. Curated by Kin Chui and Mitha Budhyarto and presenting new works by Indonesian and Singaporean artists Fyerool Darma, Ardi Gunawan, Wu Jun Han, Ila, Eldwin Pradipta, and Evelyn Pritt, the exhibition perceives "islandness" as a staged event, framed by the concepts of borders and desires.
Talk of islands often conjures different fantasies: the excitement of travel and discovery, pure escapism, solitary confinement. The geographical condition of islands - bodies of land marked by surrounding waters - lend itself to metaphors of closure and openness, interiority and exteriority, where people, objects, ideas and histories move across their borders.
Borders - real or imagined - establish and define the relations to be woven by those who cross them. Here, desire factors in, governing our actions in setting up such borders: what do we do in this island? Who do we talk to? What would we see, and what gets hidden from view?
Such concepts of "borders" and "bordering practices" underpin the ideas explored in this exhibition, as it investigates the cultural and social connections between Batam and Singapore. Through the lens of the participating Indonesian and Singaporean artists' practice, it seeks to present the complex relations - historic & current - between the two islands.
Public Programmes
Performance/ Ceremony/ Ritual: 10 & 26 January, 6pm
"A Hanging of 10 Paintings in an Hour - Submitting to a Habit" by Fyerool Darma
Lecture 1: 14 January 2017, 2pm
"Batam: Fantasies and Realities" by Vivienne Wee
Exhibition Tour: 21 January 2017, 2pm
"What if there's no inside", guided by Syafiatudina
Lecture 2: 26 January 2017, 7pm
"Sea Charms and Ceremonies: Annotating Possessing Texts" by Zarina Muhammad
We look forward to seeing you!
Best wishes,
Mitha Budhyarto and Kin Chui
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