A Home/A Dwelling

This exhibition posits Singapore as a city of ghosts, where spectres of the past continue to affect the present and the living. What once held is quickly gone; negotiations between changing environments, domestic graveyards and lost landscapes leave a growing tumour of feelings with nowhere to go. These feelings reappear most acutely not in the presence but in the absence of things: the spot of land where the big old tree was, the childhood mall that vanished, the silences of a family that are emotionally bound, still, by these walls. Flickers of affect flash between our reality and the emotional ether. If we were to pause, perhaps, and consider the barrenness left in the wake of what once was or could be, the boundary between a linear then/now might begin to dissipate. Be it through sentiments of mourning, curiosity, or joyous re-imagination, what is important are the dialogues that occur when we meet these spectres face-to-face.