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Progressive Disintegrations Artist Conversation / TourWei Leng Tay & Hilmi Johandi: public / private memorySat 23 Jan 2021, 2pm to 3pm Objectifs Chapel Gallery Free admission; restricted to 10 attendees due to Covid-19 health and safety measures Join us for a conversation between Wei Leng Tay and Hilmi Johandi, two of the participating artists in Progressive Disintegrations. The artists will discuss their respective practices, their works in this show and lead attendees in a guided tour of the exhibition.-- In Progressive Disintegrations, artists Chua Chye Teck, Hilmi Johandi and Wei Leng Tay engage in conversation with Marc Gloede to create an installation of mixed-media works.These artworks, with beginnings in touristic images in Singapore from the late 1980s-90s, a family archive of photographic slides from the early 70s, and fluorescences of mould and wetness on wood, open up ways of re-looking at and thinking about what and who we live with, and how photographs inscribe ways of being.Through photography, painting and installation, the exhibition addresses what is perceived through an image. It also asks how a photograph — as document, object and artefact — can be re-examined through a series of transformations, fragmentation and remaking.Visit our website for full details.--  Wei Leng Tay works across disciplines including photography, audio, and installation. She focuses on how desires and histories are tied to family, society, the state, and the impact of displacement. She uses formal strategies in installation, in the relationships between image and text and bodily experiences in encounters, to question ingrained modes of perception and representation. Tay’s most recent solo exhibition, Crossings, was presented at NUS Museum (2018-19). She has collaborated with organisations such as ARTER Space for Art, Istanbul, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum and NTU CCA Singapore, through group exhibitions and residencies, and holds an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Hilmi Johandi works primarily with painting and explores interventions with new media that are associated within the domain of framing, fragmentation and compression. His explorations are set in the range of the familiar and symbolic motifs perceived in the context of Singapore. He composes and synthesis images from film, archival footage and photographs into a fragmented montage that hints at the social effects of rapid development, and the personal desires and contempt of those who embrace modernisation. Hilmi is the recipient of the Young Artist Award 2018, NAC Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate) 2018, LASALLE Scholarship 2017 and the Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award. He has held several solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions, and is one of the five artist finalists to participate in the President’s Young Talents 2018 with the Singapore Art Museum.-- Header image: Wei Leng Tay, Untitled, 2020, archival pigment print, 55x70cm. © Courtesy the artist