Desire is Dead
Through a playful juxtaposition of artworks, the exhibition seeked to tease out the erotic presences, complexities, and potentialities in Singapore’s midst, where a plenitude of desire surrounds us every day and everywhere, shaping the way we view the world and ourselves.
The exhibition was configured such that it is as much a visual showcase as it is a spatial exercise enacted bodily through artworks that engages audiences sensorially or require audience interaction. Watch a short video HERE to hear about the curator Adele Tan’s take and inspiration behind this.
LR7-1, 2001
One of Singapore’s preeminent contemporary artists, Jimmy Ong has been noted for his large-scale, figurative charcoal works on paper. His works explore how multiple identities and perspectives – whether sexual, ethnic, national, or even generational – can coexist within the individual. His deeply personal works have taken inspiration from a stark analysis of his own experience, and indeed of his physical form, an ongoing process of what he calls “creative self-therapy".
Artist:
Jimmy Ong
Courtesy of:
Shi’ai Liang Collection
Charcoal on Paper
89 x 61cm
Jimmy Ong
Courtesy of:
Shi’ai Liang Collection
Charcoal on Paper
89 x 61cm