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.
Boy and Crocodile, 2016
Aku, 2016
In our visual culture, we can glimpse the repressed eros of homosociality that has been expunged for the sake of order, control, and hierarchy. But instead of reprising the close bonds between men and thus replicating the narrative of dominance, Zulkhairi’s photographic montage features a boy and a crocodile, or buaya, which appears to seek a reconvening of forgotten and non-exploitative relations between man and animal, and restores to sight the possibility of communing with the radical but proximal other.
Artist:
Zulkhairi Zulkiflee
Courtesy of:
The Yan Collection
Boy and Crocodile
Risograph Photographic Prints and Paint
80 x 100 cm
Aku
Risograph Photographic Prints
44 x 63.5 x 8.5 cm
Zulkhairi Zulkiflee
Courtesy of:
The Yan Collection
Boy and Crocodile
Risograph Photographic Prints and Paint
80 x 100 cm
Aku
Risograph Photographic Prints
44 x 63.5 x 8.5 cm