Publications

Aug 2010 - Proposal for Tri-Space Gallery Open Call, Singapore
"Exhibition proposal
Title of project: Ya-ad
Description and concept: A wall (a large one piece 4’x 10’x 6”
cement-sprayed-Styrofoam) is erected the height and width of a display
panel facing the doors into the gallery. The wall is damaged or is
possibly under repair. It is carefully sprayed with charged white talc
powder. The powder on the wall stays for as long as the charge remains.
Wisps of powder gather around the base of the wall revealing the darker
base wall color. Whenever the door to the gallery is opened or when
there is activity inside the gallery, the powder loosens and floats to
the floor forming alabaster white heaps of dust. A light layer forms on
the gallery floor over time tracing the movements in the gallery. The
piece evokes the fragile beauty of the very subtle and it’s with just
this subtlety that the wall fills the gallery. The work is fragile and
remains still until disrupted. The smallest movement can alter the
work. The viewer is unaware of her complicity and inadvertent
participation in the creation/destruction of the work. This fragility
contrasts with and is exaggerated by its physical state. The wall sits
quietly anticipating a change in its environment whereas its physical
appearance shouts violence and damage. Together the work testifies to
its own mutability and transience while sometimes embedding itself in
the existing architecture and sometimes thwarting it."




Feb 2010 - Proposal for Substation Gallery Open Call, Singapore
"Title of proposal: PixelRupture
Proposer: Rajinder Singh
The Research:
My art uses, as its primary medium, the book form, to create installations informed by
ideas stemming from epistemology and art history. I transform used books into art works
that create new narratives by applying processes to transform them physically and
metaphorically.
I am particularly attracted to old, used books which one can not only hold in hand and
enter with the mind, but books which have intimate, tactile and symbolic qualities, with
histories of use and meaning. I am drawn to books for their suggestions of layered
metaphors of knowledge and corporeality as an embodiment of the transitory nature of
the body, thoughts, memories and experiences.
PixelRupture deals with punctured paper objects that reveal layers of paper, degrees of
pulp as well as traces of information building a visual language through ideas such as
inversion and subversion. Although parallels might be drawn with artist Michael Lee’s
carefully constructed paper sculptures, my book bricks are sculpted using a primal
undetermined trauma implying a found or excavated relic. The element of chance gives
each book brick an openness that suggests multiple vocabularies, inherent in our memory
towards our idea of a structure of knowledge. Perhaps the book brick should be ‘ not
book enough’, ‘not informative enough’, and it should instead find its own reason to
exist. It should reflect upon itself till it collapses within. If only the object could behave
like a body? Like my body.
The method:
The proposed installation will present a wall of perforated even sized book bricks in a
grid format.
To make a book brick, take a book, and subject its surface to the force of a powerful
trauma. Cut the book (including its perforation) down to a standard size to fit a grid.
Arrange perforated book bricks to form a wall of pixelated ruptures. The thickness of the
book brick might vary but the grid should be tightly packed.
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To interrogate the piece, peel the pages of each book brick to reveal a new hole and
another trace of information.