tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2018-11-20T12:56:11+08:00 Peatix NUS Museum tag:peatix.com,2018:event-446847 2018-10-18T19:00:00SGT 2018-10-18T19:00:00SGT

[Exhibition Opening]Crossings: A solo exhibition by Wei Leng TayThursday, 18 October 20187pmArchaeology Library, NUS MuseumThe final iteration of Crossings by Wei Leng Tay returns audiences’ focus to ‘you think it over slowly, slowly choose…’. First appearing at the launch of this four-part show as tissue prints of 650 re-photographs of 13 existing family photographs of the artist’s grandaunt, this work considers the entangled circumstances that affect familial and state- driven relationships as well as hierarchies through the dispossession of the artist’s grandaunt who crossed into Singapore in 1955. She remained stateless till her death in Singapore in 2004. The tissue prints have remained through the exhibition's iterative sequences in the trough of sherds that cuts through the Archaeology Library, softly diminishing over time. For this last iteration, the spectral nature of the subject is further manifested as video and texts emerge in place of the tissue prints. These new works overlay internalised values with social constructs imposed through relationships implicit in the self, family and the state. A reading by participants from the MOVE writing workshop will open this last chapter of Crossings. Led by Lawrence Ypil, MOVE is a series of writing workshops that has been running parallel to the four iterations of Crossings and has been exploring the poetics of migration and the materiality of moving, seeking to find new ways of documenting stories about what it means to move in the world. It is administered in collaboration with the Yale-NUS Writers’ Centre. Image : Detail from Wei Leng Tay, ‘you think it over slowly, slowly choose…’, 2018. Image courtesy of artist.