tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2024-05-19T15:36:17+08:00 Peatix Objectifs tag:peatix.com,2024:event-3932229 2024-05-18T14:30:00SGT 2024-05-18T14:30:00SGT

Artist Talk with Choulay Mech and Roger NelsonSaturday, 18 May 2024, 2:30pm–3:30pmObjectifs Workshop SpaceFree AdmissionThis conversation between Choulay Mech and exhibition curator and mentor Roger Nelson will share more about Choulay’s research into the place of elephants in Cambodia’s history and culture, and the significance of her interest in these issues. They will also speak about Choulay’s wider artistic practice and the process of working together on An Elephant's Eye, her first solo exhibition.Choulay is the recipient of the Objectifs Documentary Award, Open Category. An Elephant's Eye will be exhibited at Chapel Gallery, Objectifs, from 18 May to 16 June. Presented by ObjectifsSupported by the Cultural Matching FundRelated events:Artist Talk with Kaleb Sitompul and Ng Swan Ti | Sat 18 May 2024, 1pm – 2pm (Register here)Artist Talk with Lê Nguyên Phương and Dan Tran | Sat 18 May 2024, 4pm – 5pm (Register here)About Choulay MechChoulay Mech (b. 1992, Kandal, Cambodia) lives and works in Phnom Penh. She is an artist, documentary filmmaker, and freelance journalist. She is passionate about environmental and animal rights issues, and human-interest storytelling. Choulay trained in journalism with the Cambodian Center for Independent Media, and in filmmaking with the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center. She has received several grants and awards, including from Creative Generation (2020), Angkor Photo Festival and Workshops (2021), and Citizen Engaged in Environmental Justice for All (CEEJA)(2021). Her reporting has been published in Cambodia and internationally, including with Southeast Asia Globe, Voice of Democracy and The Washington Post. In 2023, she was an Angkor Photo Festival fellow and now an artist-in-residence at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia. An Elephant’s Eye is her first solo exhibition, and her first exhibition in Singapore.About Roger NelsonRoger Nelson is an art historian and curator, and Assistant Professor of Art History in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. He researches modern and contemporary art in Southeast Asia. He was previously a curator at National Gallery Singapore. He was the 2022 recipient of the A.L. Becker Southeast Asian Literature in Translation Prize. He is co-founding co-editor of Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, a scholarly journal published by NUS Press.About Objectifs Documentary AwardThe Objectifs Documentary Award champions Objectifs’ mission to broaden perspectives through image making, by supporting original voices in visual storytelling in Singapore and the wider region. The Award enables photographers to work on new or existing projects, encouraging them to tell stories about their native communities. It welcomes different creative approaches to non-fiction storytelling, from conventional documentary photography to visual experiments. Projects may be presented in still images or use multimedia.

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