We met up as a group with our supervisor, Ms Adeline, to discuss our ideas for the project. Our main concept for the exhibition was to jump start a dialogue on Singaporean Identity. Because personally I feel that our exhibition should be grounded in a Singaporean context because that would not be like other exhibitions that are just left in a limbo - those that you go to and don't strike a chord with you and are there just for the sake of being there and showcasing art.
Because that doesn't strike me as what art should be. I think that art should be the collective conscious or at least the social conscious of society. I don't think that art should merely be set in the works or dictated by the people who make it. I think that art should be a two-way dialogue between the artist and the audience and then between the audience themselves. I think the art works and shows that are the most meaningful are the ones that we end up talking about, or resonate the most with us. The ones that sit there purely for aesthetic or conceptual basis without ever touching a personal emotionally or at least stirring up some sort of dialogue is, to me, a failed exhibition.
Even though I think that I should not count my chickens too soon before they hatch, I think that as an artist, a curator and a student from SOTA, we should be the people to start the ball rolling. Even if it is a hard task that we will be undertaking.
I feel that this entire process is a great link to my Extended Essay and my Visual Arts Investigation Work Book research. I realise that I am not very drawn or stirred by big conceptual ideas of the West that my other peers are drawn to. I am more interested in a very personal and intrinsic ideas that are perhaps more Singaporean. This entire process has helped me find renewed purpose as an artist in Singapore. Perhaps through this exhibition
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