Han Kiang Siew
Fake Plastic Trees and Rubber Men [Multi-Disciplinary]

Kiang Siew’s works are often inspired by both urban conditions as well as natural landscapes. The dialectics between urbanism and nature are issues
especially pertinent to Singapore and Kiang Siew, through his interdisciplinary approach, hopes to evolve a cohesive reading and commentary on the contemporary issues that surround them.

A large part of his creative process bears a combinative streak. The works he creates, ranging from art installations, furniture design, to interiors and architecture, spring from an intricate inter-connective roadmap of his thinking. Their intra-influence is inevitable; these are essentially our contemporary visual cultural products that intersect in many ways.

Kiang Siew’s design objects inherit artistic traits in the way they take on a narrative quality or are inspired by certain conditions of our environment. His art is often similar to design objects in its processes of production and conception. He hopes that his works are enriched by this inclusive and combinative approach and that they would eventually be worth an inquiry and exploration by their audience.

Jacklyn Soo
Where will You sleep tonight? [Photography]

The objective in the artwork is to create awareness of self-help therapy. A mental disorder called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a disorder that unenables the patient to detach themselves from their past traumatic experience, leaving them disillusioned of life in the real world. By personifying the trauma victim in daily routine environment, I seek to remind ourselves to leave our past traumatic experiences behind.

A PTSD patient lives a normal human life but he/she has certain vulnerabilities in social interaction. Pyjamas are material stereotype that reflects sleep and domesticity. It is seldom worn as a daily outfit outside of the home and also typically associated with bed-ridden persons. Perhaps, we are hiding behind a façade that does not allow us to come clean with our emotional unsettlements.

By challenging the stereotype, as I wear the Pyjamas, I was able to become a subject and reflection of a trauma victim in existence, portraying the various expressions and mannerisms of the person. In the photographs, I disguised myself by wearing a wig to set myself apart from the typical pyjamas wearer, in an effort to capture the publics’ attention as opposed to just wearing a pyjama alone.

By collaborating with a Photographer and using Photography as a medium, the intention is to document and capture real events as I move through public and private social spaces.

Chong Li-Chuan
in quietude – an untimely meditation [Music]

A shared moment in quietude, an untimely visit to Cage, Sontag, and Wittgenstein, Chuan would like to request for your audience to explore the aesthetics and meanings of silence.

Haslinda Abdul Rahman
Formless [Art]

Mark-making with a diverse range of media, artist Haslinda Abdul Rahman creates subtle shifts in texture, depth and tone in her monochromatic paintings. Through her experimentation,
the unique qualities of each medium are emphasized; challenging the viewer’s perception of surface finishes.

Her canvases are primed with enamel paint, its inherent reflective quality mirroring the space around the work. The relationship between the work and surrounding space, the work and the viewer, are examined. Haslinda Abdul Rahman graduated from LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in 2005. Having exhibited widely in local group exhibitions, her first solo exhibition will be held at Plastique Kinetic Worms this June.