Last week to catch Vincent Leongs exhibition, do drop by! Vincent Leong’s practice has consistently engaged with structures and systems of representation to provoke a critical reconsideration of where and how we locate meaning. He uses various strategies to deconstruct our experience of popular, iconic or everyday material, at times subtracting, reconfiguring and recontextualising key elements, playing off the visual and other aesthetic codes that govern our perception. In this exhibition of new and recent works, Leong meditates on the contradictions and difficulties of framing a national consciousness, and the means of its representation. The works adopt or refer to familiar forms of expressing national identity and agenda – landscape paintings, school murals, a national monument, the newspaper, and a patriotic song – but they fail to articulate any clear messages. References are pulled from different key points in a national narrative – a colonial past, a moment of independence, a formation of a new nation, a current day, a vision of a united future; and then pulled apart. Emotional and aesthetic undercurrents of pride, nostalgia, youthful angst, frustration, and hope press against one another. Hari Ini Dalam Sejarah (This Day in History) in collaboration with RogueArt Oct 17 - Nov 23 2014 Silverlens Galleries Gillman Barracks 47 Malan Road, #01-25
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 06:38:06 +0000
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