THE ART OF THE EVERYDAY
Ang Soo Koon & Adeline Kueh
21- 23 September 2023
Marina Bay Sands Singapore
Ang Soo Koon & Adeline Kueh
21- 23 September 2023
Marina Bay Sands Singapore
Intersections invites you to discover unique pieces
by Ang Soo Koon and Adeline Kueh
part of THE ART OF THE EVERYDAY exhibition by AGAS
by Ang Soo Koon and Adeline Kueh
part of THE ART OF THE EVERYDAY exhibition by AGAS
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Soo Koon Ang is an artist from Singapore working with various mediums, including video, installation, drawing and printmaking. Her work has been shown in The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France, China, UK, USA and Singapore. She majored in sculpture in School of Visual Arts, New York and has participated in the Rijksakademie Artist Research Residency in Amsterdam. Her work addresses both the physical and metaphysical world— the space which we physically dwell and the interior space within us that is our spiritual, emotional and imaginative world and how these two both reflect and have an effect on each other. Sookoon Ang creates visual representations of the eclipse between these two realms. The artist often takes common or everyday objects and occurrences, and presents them in a way that goes beyond their practical functions or mundane appearances.
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YOUR LOVE IS LIKE A CHUNK OF GOLD (DISAPPEARANCE)
Bronze, Crystals 31 x 11 x 14 cm 2015 SGS 6000 |
YOUR LOVE IS LIKE A CHUNK OF GOLD (ELECTRIC DREAMS)
Bronze, Crystals 21x 19x 13 cm 2015 SGS 6000 |
About the artworks
Your Love Is Like A Chunk of Gold is a series of bread with crystal growth. The work is a juxtaposition of the real, the supernatural and science fiction.
The bread is a familiar item, a comfort food; the crystal (instead of mold) growth made it strange —The bread with crystal growth becomes an oxymoron object of familiarity and strangeness, comfort and pain similar to experiences of love and romance.
“Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely."
Jeanette Winterson
Your Love Is Like A Chunk of Gold is a series of bread with crystal growth. The work is a juxtaposition of the real, the supernatural and science fiction.
The bread is a familiar item, a comfort food; the crystal (instead of mold) growth made it strange —The bread with crystal growth becomes an oxymoron object of familiarity and strangeness, comfort and pain similar to experiences of love and romance.
“Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely."
Jeanette Winterson
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Adeline Kueh makes installations and socially-embodied works that reconsider the relationship we have with things and rituals around us. Using drawing as a conceptual tool, Adeline looks to cartographies, craft and oral tradition to map out the historical trajectories across time and space through her use of found objects and new productions. As a co-founder of the Critical Craft Collective (Singapore) and the pan-Borneo/UK Serumpun Collective, the centrality of craft in contemporary practice as well as the politics of care are the core focus in her research practice.
Presently a Senior Lecturer with the MA Fine Arts programme at LASALLE College of the Arts, Adeline has exhibited internationally. She was involved in the Word of Mouth exhibition in Venice Biennale (2019), the Passion Made Possible Culture Shaper Tribe Films (Singapore Tourism Board, 2019) and Hermes Singapore (2016). |
Flex , 2023
Swiss voile circular top, lightweight gabardine rectangular pants with half moon pocket.
Top : SGD 500
Pants: SGD 500
Swiss voile circular top, lightweight gabardine rectangular pants with half moon pocket.
Top : SGD 500
Pants: SGD 500
About the artworks
The artist’s inspiration & observations tend to come from everyday life and materials but also from the classic shapes or forms such as the circle, square and the triangle (with Bruno Munari’s titular text serving a reference).
Using some of these elements and forms as the building blocks, they are then displaced, distorted, and playfully engaged with, as a way for her to push the boundaries of contemporary art and fashion. Spatial and formal considerations of these adaptive, multiwear clothing are also very important as someone who has gone through differing stages of semi-disability.
For Design Art Fair 2023 Adeline Kueh intends to develop this growing range of retro-futuro adaptive/inclusive clothing and accessories that has been items she has been working on and refining as part of the idea of the extension of the body. As she negotiated daily activities (such as rehabilitation and as she went about with daily activities that required quick changes going from extensive physiotherapy, wheeling her own wheelchair, using crutches or a walking stick as well as going to the college to teach and then to art openings/events after), she felt the wearable objects to be made need to be easy-to-wear, durable and stylish.
The artist’s inspiration & observations tend to come from everyday life and materials but also from the classic shapes or forms such as the circle, square and the triangle (with Bruno Munari’s titular text serving a reference).
Using some of these elements and forms as the building blocks, they are then displaced, distorted, and playfully engaged with, as a way for her to push the boundaries of contemporary art and fashion. Spatial and formal considerations of these adaptive, multiwear clothing are also very important as someone who has gone through differing stages of semi-disability.
For Design Art Fair 2023 Adeline Kueh intends to develop this growing range of retro-futuro adaptive/inclusive clothing and accessories that has been items she has been working on and refining as part of the idea of the extension of the body. As she negotiated daily activities (such as rehabilitation and as she went about with daily activities that required quick changes going from extensive physiotherapy, wheeling her own wheelchair, using crutches or a walking stick as well as going to the college to teach and then to art openings/events after), she felt the wearable objects to be made need to be easy-to-wear, durable and stylish.