How Loneliness Goes

PUBLISHED January 5th, 2015 05:32 am | UPDATED May 9th, 2018 03:13 am

How Loneliness Goes is about those of us who abide in the city. The photographs in the series employ Singapore’s distinct vernacular architecture as both scenery and supporting cast for a lyrical and ambivalent evocation of urban isolation.

Whether depicted as being on their own or in the middle of a teeming crowd, the protagonists in the images appear detached and bereft—a part of the living, yet oddly apart from it. The work functions as an allegory for the impossibility of connection in modern life. The pictures also affirm the tenuous margins that divide maturity or worldliness from a sort of brokenness, and melancholy from a kind of peace.

How Loneliness Goes runs from Wednesday, 14 January till Sunday, 25 January at the ION Art Gallery, Level 4.

Admission is free.