Art Outreach Singapore presents Cut, Ground, a solo exhibition by Singaporean artist Ang Song Nian at Gillman Barracks as part of Singapore Art Week 2026.

Working across moving image and spatial installation, Ang's practice attends to the quiet, often-overlooked rhythms of urban life. Cut, Ground takes as its subject the routine trimming of roadside trees across Singapore — tracing the journey of cut branches, twigs and leaves as they are collected, processed through a chipper and reduced into mulch, returned to the soil to support future growth.

The exhibition isolates a specific moment within this cycle: the release of fragments from the chipper. 

Detached from their usual context, what is typically understood as waste or functional material is re-framed as a transient form in its own right. Tracing the quiet cycles of maintenance that sustain the city’s lush urban landscape, Ang transforms these hidden processes into moments of reflection on the rhythms of urban life – where acts of pruning and renewal mirror the city’s broader cycles of growth, erasure, and return. Cut, Ground asks how acts of pruning and renewal mirror the city's broader cycles of growth, erasure and return.

As both organiser and presenting institution, Art Outreach commissioned and produced Cut, Ground as part of its ongoing commitment to spotlighting critical practices within contemporary art in Singapore. The presentation reflects Art Outreach's role as an arts intermediary that not only supports and enables the work of others, but actively initiates and presents projects — creating space for Singaporean artistic voices and inviting audiences into sustained, contemplative encounters.