13 November - 5 December 2021
Something Similar
by Chua Chye Teck and Liu Liling
Presented at starch
81 Tagore Lane, Tag A building, #02-11, Singapore 787502
The pictorial dialogue that started between Chua and Liu amassed in volume to spark these questions and the basis of this project is an attempt to address them. By slowing down and stepping back, can we delve deeper and reinterpret the images, see if they hold any other messages when viewed in the absence of the speed in which they were originally produced?
Exhibition Review published on Art&Market
Islet Dew, 2021, 113 x 28 cm, Inkjet on rice paper, window film.
From their pictorial dialogue that went on for a couple of years, there are intriguing images of objects and spaces alongside evocative non-figurative photographs of shifting colour hues and silhouettes. These images respond to one another through aesthetic elements such as composition, subject matter, line and texture, or even through the materiality of technology itself.
(From Left to right): Blue Suede, 2021, 2.6 x 2 metres, Wallpaper print. Ebony, 2021, 144 x 6 x 17 cm, Fine art print, Lightbox.
This spontaneous exchange of visuals has offered new meanings and ways in which to look at photographs. It is a candid and formal investigation of how the artists view, think of, and expand on their use of the photographic medium in their respective practice and also examines the curatorial role in artist- led projects.
All photographs courtesy of Chua Chye Teck