She’s known for Walter, her pet project involving guerrilla installations of a curious, colossal white inflatable bunny that pops up across Singapore’s standard landscape of flats and heartland enclaves. By using Walter to create and photograph scenarios packed with surprise and wonder, Dawn draws attention to commonly overlooked and over familiar spaces across our landscape, while dodging cops and people with no sense of humour. Art Garden at the Singapore Art Museum also just would not be the same without this unofficial mascot. Her work is reflective of an urge to hijack, subvert and toy with the obvious to surprise people with the truth.
In her solo exhibition Everything You Ever Wanted Is Right Here at Chan Hampe Galleries Raffles Hotel Arcade, Dawn Ng presents us with a tongue-in-cheek visual documentary of modern day Singapore. Produced over a four-month period employing photo-journalism and candid interviews with locals, the works are a series of handcrafted photographic and typography-based collages of home.
Having shuttled between Singapore, Paris and New York for ten years, this notion of home, identity and belonging has become almost an obsession with Ng and her attempt to define the ever-changing form of what it means to belong is core to this exhibition.
The title itself is taken from one of the works, these words have been hand-cut out of a massive photo of a local mamashop. (more…)
