PUBLISHED April 13th, 2015 03:43 am | UPDATED June 12th, 2020 04:21 pm
How do images and objects encourage a sense of belonging to a particular place? Fantastic rubbish: For the love of locality explores this question through painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation and video by 19 final-year students from Diploma, Fine Arts.
The exhibition highlights the group’s interest in locality, a term defined by the students as ‘a sense of belonging, created through being in a specific location in time and space’. Comprising works created by the students from two modules— Assemblage, and Text and Image—it explores how Images and objects contain different meanings and values for different viewers: how one person’s treasure might be considered another person’s rubbish. In the works, it is as much the material as the symbolic qualities of everyday objects that trigger emotional reactions and attachments, from the unique patina of an old piece of furniture, to connections of the Chinese game of mahjong with local traditions.
Fantastic rubbish: For the love of locality is organized by Diploma, Fine Arts students Ammar Ul Haq, Azhar Mohd. Noor, Charmaine Hubilla, Keith Teo, Low Huiyi, Maria Clare Khoo, Megha Lamba and Nicholas Ong.
The Fantastic Rubbish exhibition is currently running from now until Sun 10 May in the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, Level 1. Opening Hours: Tue to Sun (closed on Mon and public holidays): 10 am – 6 pm. Admission is free. For more information, please visit the Lasalle website.
Image: Danial Kassim, Best quality part 4 (Detail), 2014, digital photograph, 29.7cm x 42 cm © Courtesy the artist.