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.
78-81, 2022
Kon explores relationships between the self and its immediate environment, and how established systems have shaped his home country. In this installation, the audience enters an enclosure made from hanging banner-posters that feature the artist’s whimsical photographic compositions of various suggestive imagery. They then get to listen closely to his recording of a sultry ASMR-esque narration of a page from the handbook’s lesson, which would fuel the listener’s imagination, subverting the expected classroom instruction.
Artist:
Joshua Kon
Photographic Installation With Audio
Dimensions Variable (106 x 77 cm)
Joshua Kon
Photographic Installation With Audio
Dimensions Variable (106 x 77 cm)