Joel Seah
dal 19/7/2004 al 29/7/2004
Segnalato da
19/7/2004
Joel Seah
The Substation Gallery, Singapore
Domestic partners. Currently, the United States is in a time when domestic gay life is being brought to visibility through the debate of same sex marriages, the process of which could change the social meaning as well as the representation of domestic life. In a series of 6 new large format digital prints, Seah brings to this discourse the notion that homosexuals need to assert their own identity into domestic imagery.
Domestic partners
Currently, the United States is in a time when domestic gay life is being
brought to visibility through the debate of same sex marriages, the process
of which could change the social meaning as well as the representation of
domestic life.
In a series of 6 new large format digital prints, Seah brings to this discourse
the notion that homosexuals need to assert their own identity into
domestic imagery. Catalogue pages from IKEA, Ethan Allen and Pottery
Barn have been scanned and enlarged, then re-configured. In each of these
prints, a unique repeating pattern of male silhouettes has been super-
imposed over the catalogue image, creating a scrim through which these
domestic settings can now be re-evaluated and re-interpreted.
A R T I S T ' S B I O G R A P H Y
Joel Seah was born in Singapore and is a University Fellow at Syracuse
University, New York where he is completing his third year as a Master of
Fine Arts candidate in Printmaking. He has served as a visiting artist at
The University of Alaska in Anchorage, as well as artist-in-residence at
the Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne, Australia and LaSalle College
of the Arts in Singapore.
The Substation Gallery | 20 - 29 Jul 2004 | 11am - 9pm daily | Free Admission
The Substation Ltd
45, Armenian Street
Singapore