"Like Opening One's Eyes for the First Time": Guided Walkthrough with Curator | Peatixtag:peatix.com,2011:12022-06-27T15:15:36+08:00PeatixObjectifs"Like Opening One's Eyes for the First Time": Guided Walkthrough with Curatortag:peatix.com,2022:event-32215062022-05-21T14:15:00SGT2022-05-21T14:15:00SGTGuided Walkthrough with Curator
Sat 21 May 2022, 2.15pm to 3.15pm at Objectifs
Sat 28 May 2022, 2.15pm to 3.15pm at Objectifs
Suggested Donation: $5 / person (pay at the door)
Like Opening One's Eyes for the First Time Curated by Ang Siew Ching
Creative Authors (Exhibition Participants): Lee Wen (via Bruce Quek), Chua Ek Kay, (via estate of Chua Ek Kay), Debbie Ding, Marc Nair, Rachel Bok, Randy Chan, ila (Shahila Bte Baharom), Tang Da Wu Chapel Gallery, Objectifs7 to 31 May 2022Free admissionPlease note that as part of the Vaccination-Differentiated Safe Management Measures, from 1 Feb 2022 all visitors to Objectifs must be fully vaccinated. Attendees' vaccination status will be checked upon arrival at Objectifs for this session. Read more here.* Join Ang Siew Ching, curator of Opening One's Eyes for the First Time, in a guided walkthrough of this group show. Each attendee will receive a set of specially-designed stickers, to be used in activities during the tour. Registration via this Peatix page is required to guarantee admission to the tour. Walk-ins are welcome, subject to the permitted capacity of each space as per the prevailing COVID-19 guidelines. Please read our health and safety advisory prior to your visit.*About Like Opening One's Eyes for the First Time In Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography, Geoffrey Batchen discusses the origins of photography in terms of how proto-photographers did not possess the concept of a transparent reality that can be represented through photography. Like opening one's eyes for the first time, these proto-photographers were divided on what exactly a photograph should look like and what aspects of reality are to be captured.Invoking such troubled origins of photography, this exhibition expands the idea of what photography can be, by proposing photography as a node in creative thinking endeavours of various disciplines. The eight "creative authors" in this exhibition include artists, an architect, a writer and an academic. They do not profess to use photography as their main medium, and yet all take an active and subjective approach to photography. Some create photographs as playful experimentation, others make snapshots as a form of note-taking or simply an impulse, and yet others use photographs to orient themselves in real or virtual spaces.Find out more about the exhibition and associated programmes here.Header image by Lee Wen