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28/5/2003

A Journey Towards Month of Photography 2004

Alliance Francaise de Singapour, Singapore

SINGAPORE PHOTOGRAPHERS PREPARE FOR SELECTION IN PRESTIGIOUS PARIS PHOTO EVENT

Singapore, 9 May 2003 --- A Journey Towards Month of Photography 2004 is an exhibition of photographs by ten Singaporean and Singapore based photographers presented by Alliance Française de Singapour and the French Embassy, sponsored by SG Private Banking, supported by the National Arts Council and RGB.
The participating photographers are Chow Chee Yong, Tay Kay Chin, Ken Seet, Mabel Lee, Terence Yeung, Sherman Ong, Huang Zhi Ming, Ernest Goh, Kheng-Li Wee and Gilles Massot. The exhibition will be held from 29 May to 14 June 2003 at the SG Private Banking Gallery, Alliance Française de Singapour, from Monday to Saturday, 11 am - 7 pm (closed on Sunday).

As the title suggests, the exhibition is a work in progress in preparation for the prestigious Month of Photography in Paris which is an international biennial photo event initiated 20 years ago by the European House of Photography in Paris. Based on this month-long series of exhibition, Singapore launched its first Month of Photography during the Singapore Arts Festival 2002, to be followed by another one in 2004.
Photographers participating in this exhibition have been selected based upon the recommendation of Mr Jean-Luc Monterosso, the Executive Director of The European House of Photography, who started a selection of Singaporean Photographers since last year's event in view of representing Singapore in the Month of Photography 2004 in Paris.

For this exhibition, each photographer feature works that depict and portray themes and subject matters close to their hearts. This makes for an interesting exhibition that covers wide-ranging issues and topics. Tay Kay Chin presents a series titled 'Something Chinese, Something Red', focusing on the colour red, a symbol of good luck and fortune for the Chinese. It is through this symbolic colour that Kay Chin embarks on a personal survey of Chinese-ness. For Terence Yeung, whose photographs tend towards the abstract, his series for this exhibition addresses a presence of multiples, where things are no longer unique and singular.

Sherman Ong's works, although not visually confrontational, have the power to provoke deeper emotions as he tries to nudge the viewer to step back and take in the passing beauty of the commonplace and the everyday. Huang Zhi Ming's Polaroid shots of a friend's traditional wedding ceremony tells an intimate story of the wedding day, providing a very personal documentation of traditions that are fast dying out. For Ernest Goh, freedom is a subject that is close to his heart. The sky is symbolic of the freedom he cherishes and hence has become the subject of his series 'Pieces of My Sky'. This series is made up of shots of different parts of the Singapore sky. Chua Chee Yong's surreal images conjure up notions of an illusory world. His surrealist influences are evident in the way he has composed his images to suggest places that cannot possibly exist and places that exude an almost mystical aura.

Ken Seet's works are about the people and places that have impacted on him in his travels. As a photographer, he sees into the little things and the small, insignificant moments that may pass us by, capturing them for a timeless eternity in his photographs. The primary focus of Kheng-Li Wee's work is on personal documentary in both the classical tradition as well as the contemporary neo-documentary movement. He works both in colour and black and white. Apart from photography, Gilles Massot's works include oil paintings, drawings and 3D art. His experience in the other fields is evident in his photographic works in which both painting and photography come to blend to enrich each other and find their fullest form of expression. Mabel Lee's picture of painted Chinese Opera faces capture the atmosphere and spirit of a fading cultural tradition.

The gallery is open from Monday to Saturday, 11am to 7pm.

All works in the exhibition are for sale.

SG PRIVATE BANKING GALLERY
Alliance Francaise
1 Sarkies Road Singapore 258130

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