STPI's latest exhibition, On Time, features new works by four Singaporean artists: Adeline Kueh, Jason Lim, Ian Woo and Zul Mahmod; curated by Marc Gloede. Each established names in the Singapore art scene, in their own rights, these artists also happen to have taken part in a residency with STPI one after another in 2021.
The exhibition inspects the role of time in the artist' production period during their STPI residency, as well as the experience of time during and of an exhibition. The range of works on view spans print to sculpture, relief to installation – all addressing the impact of time on manifold levels.
They invite the audience to encounter and reflect on the facet of time that is most obviously embedded in the artworks: the time of production. They further consider the role of the audience’s engagement and ask: how much time are we spending with each work and how might our perception of it change over time?
On Time asks how experience is related to duration. It rejects the idea of a static presentation and replaces this with a mode of continuous alteration. The exhibition's layout will be altered a few times during the run of the show, thus presenting a few distinct iterations. You'll get a different experience each time you visit the exhibition during its run. In that, STPI hopes audiences continuously come back and renegotiate expectations, perceptions and their own memories of former experiences.
There are also a series of artist-led workshops and talks happening every weekend from October 2:
- Artist-led workshop with Adeline Kueh (October 2)
On paper-bead making, time capsules, wishes and dreams
- Artist-led workshop with Jason Lim (October 9)
Monoprint on ceramics
- Artist-led workshop with Zul Mahmod (October 14-16)
A circuitry drawing class (3-part class)
- In Dialogue with Adeline Kueh, Jason Lim, Ian Woo and Zul Mahmod, moderated by Marc Gloede 23 October 2021