DECK Creative Associate Programmes offers creative thinkers worldwide an opportunity to create and disseminate new knowledge about the photographic medium, its associated practices, and its transformations. Taking photography as both a vantage point and point of departure, the programme seeks to connect voices in the global exchange of visual culture through the development of new content.
DECK Creative Associate Programmes (2021)
Over a three month period, Associates will be provided with a modest honorarium towards the development of new content culminating in exhibition proposals, writing, or public outreach programmes. These outcomes correspond to the three pathways of the Associate Creative Programme – Associate Curator, Associate Scholar, and Associate Programmer. With a strong focus on uncovering contemporary community values and ideals, the programme emphasizes the proposal’s ability to generate new knowledge while bridging cultural divides.
Application deadline: 2nd August 2021
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The Columns Gallery is pleased to present ‘Fold & Unfold’, its first solo exhibition of the works by Korean contemporary artist Jeon Byeong Sam. The exhibition – based on David Bohm’s quantum theory – features four series of framed mixed-media, diptych prints, a video, and some NFT pieces, exploring the intertwined relationship between sculpture, print, and image-making.
The Columns Gallery ‘Fold & Unfold’
Many half-folded photographic prints, stacked and layered in various uniformed arrangements, serves as the primary construction for the serial works of Moment, Cosmo, Wave, and Blossom. Jeon reduces the formal qualities of an image to a mere thin line of ink exposed through its straight edge, similar to a single row of stuck pixels on a glitched screen.
In Unfold, a pair of square prints feature a central glowing light flare made out of texts extracted from books. Words are resized, arrowed and highlighted to appear as tiny bursting rays of yellow lines against a starkly contrasted background – bright and gleaming ethereally.
These unconventional manipulation and qualities are also present in his NFT works and Lost, a framed video display of moving, vibrant elongated stripes derived from a warped image of a tower bridge in London. Played in a loop, the lines constantly vibrate, emerge and disappear in various linear configurations to capture the hypnotic experience of walking across one.
Through Jeon’s deconstructive approach, all representational subjects and the original context of the print, image or text becomes rendered insignificant, distorted and repeated to create a unique spread and echo of gradient blurs and colours. Yet, visually, they are a materialisation of freedom – calming waves, blooming flower forms and inviting wormhole-like portals to other worlds, which serves as an immersive space for one’s introspection on life.
Transforming the materiality of media, the inventive and playful works in ‘Fold & Unfold’ creates a dynamic installation that fully immerses the viewer in a sensorial experience, poetically tackling themes of entrapment and freedom in the daily lives of individuals.
The Columns Gallery is also featuring 5 NFT (Non-Fungible Token) works from Jeon Byeong Sam. Click here to view the artwork in motion as a mesmerising looped video.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives. Although social distancing and the new normal now define the way we live, the innocence of children, like art, never fails to touch our hearts. The Taipei Representative Office in Singapore, with the assistance of the Association For Education Through Art of the Republic of China (Taiwan), selected 80 award-winning children’s paintings from Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries, including 3 from Singapore, to be displayed at this three-month-long exhibition. In the midst of the pandemic, may we find gentleness in the one-metre gap between people, and together, build a world of love and co-prosperity.
World School Art Exhibition (Taiwan & South-East Asia) 2021.
About World School Children’s Art Exhibition
In their endeavours to promote international cultural exchange and spur the development of fine arts education for children, the Association For Education Through Art of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the National Taiwan Arts Education Center have jointly organised the World School Children’s Art Exhibition since 1966. Over half a century of its history, the Exhibition has attracted the participation and support of people from all over the world.
The Taipei Representative Office is located at mTower, level 23, 460 Alexander Road (former PSA Building). They are open daily from Mon – Fri, close on weekends.
By appointment only:
Interested visitors, please call 6500 0114 or 6500 0136 to make an appointment to view the exhibition. A guided tour is available. Each group should be in groups of 5. Closed at lunchtime.
