Trikhos
dal 7/2/2003 al 22/2/2003
Segnalato da
7/2/2003
Trikhos
Alliance Francaise de Singapour, Singapore
by Lynn Lu & Margaret Tan. Hair as material is laden with many social and symbolic meanings. Its uses range from fashion to 'Memento mori' but most of all, the constant shedding/dying of hair points to our mortality. It signifies the abject body hence hair, when displaced, is abhorred...
by Lynn LU & Margaret TAN
- THE EXHIBITION
Since time immemorial, art making has been seen as a form of divine/spiritual creation by 'genius' artists, with little regard paid to the physical/embodied aspects of the production process. This work references the artists' bodies in the art production, by making art with fallen body forms (namely hair) and through the painstaking installation of the work, thus redefining media and process.Â
Hair as material is laden with many social and symbolic meanings. Its uses range from fashion to 'Memento mori' but most of all, the constant shedding/dying of hair points to our mortality. It signifies the abject body hence hair, when displaced, is abhorred. Julia Kristeva sees the abject as a place where meaning collapses. What is at the borderlines or indeterminate is potentially dangerous because it disturbs identity, system and order. If what is at the borderline is that which separates the inside from the outside of the body, the self from the other (Betterton), then hair is most significant of crossing such boundaries. Â
How is hair used in Trikhos ?
Trikhos- is a site-specific sculptural installation made entirely of human hair (the artist's own included). Hair of different lengths and colors, and from different parts of the body, installed in the gallery transforming the sterile, white space into a lush, organic space.
Most of these 'installations' may be imperceptible at first glance but will become apparent upon careful investigation and mindful experience of the entire space.
- ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Margaret Tan is a local artist whose performances and installations are strongly driven by feminist thought and theory. Lynn Lu, a not-so-local artist who has lived most of the last decade in North America and France, is a material-based conceptual artist. A chance meeting at a local gallery in September between Marge and Lynn found common spirit and mutual fetish (hair), and wonderfully disparate ideology and practice. 'We've got to make a piece together!' And so they did.
- FOR THE PRESS : SPECIAL PREVIEW
Margaret Tan and Lynn Lu will receive the journalists Friday 7 February at 6 p.m. in the gallery for a special presentation and a Q&A session. The opening ceremony will be at 7.30 p.m. the same day.
- FOR THE PUBLIC : SPECIAL MEETING WITH THE ARTISTS!
Watch out for a special viewing of the exhibition with Margaret Tan and Lynn Lu with a Q&A session on Saturday 8 February at 2 pm, in the Gallery.
Supported by NAC
Public viewing :
Monday to Saturday
12 am - 7 pm
(closed on Sundays and public holidays)
Contact Société Générale Gallery:
Natacha Blondeau, Gallery manager
Tel : 6737 8422/DID : 6833 9314
Fax : 6733 3023
Venue :
Société Générale Gallery
Alliance Française de Singapour, 4th floor
1 Sarkies Road, Singapore 258130
(Newton MRT)