Spottiswoode Park Road is lined with colourful conservation shophouses, some of them inspiring murals such as Yip Yew Chong's Provision Shop and drawing art galleries like Art Porters and Art Agenda @ 63 Spottiswoode. The latter, while not a permanent space, is a three-month pop-up that features exhibitions, a shop and a series of activations in the Blair Plain Conservation area. But first, get acquainted with Art Agenda S.E.A. It was started in 2016 by Wang Zineng and directed by Jefferson Jong, specialising in post-art and modern Asian art from the 1930s to the 1980s.
There'll be two exhibition spaces: 63 Upper and 63 Ground. On the first floor, 63 Ground brings to focus the medium of photography and related themes over a series of exhibitions, events and activations. The exhibition programme spotlights modern photographers such as Yip Cheong Fun and Lim Kwong Ling working in the post-war years to creatives today such as Dave Lim and Lavender Chang.
Once you're done, head upstairs. 63 Upper is a voluminous hall that takes over a formerly dormant second floor of a historical shophouse, hoping to give visitors a peek into an artist's oeuvre. It has since been activated as a curatorial space in collaboration with Art Porters, branching out into multi-coloured rooms that have been freshly painted in bright hues of blue, green, yellow and more. These chambers display a regularly changing display of artworks from private collections.
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