Frequencies is a group presentation featuring Arron Teo, Joanne Lim & Smiha Kapoor, curated by Bridget Tay, presented as part of SeptFest 2022: uproot | rootless. This exhibition calls upon the interconnectivity of structure and constructs with each of the artists’ works presenting itself as an endeavour to approach the construct of the body that projects perceptions of the cultural, political and sexual. Ideas that are evocative of bodies and their relationship to the environment float through the works as they intermingle and intersect with each other and the space.
In Arron Teo’s series of photo-documentations, LORONG 2230, he presents a set of images established within perimeters of time and space, documenting excerpts of activity that broaches the space between a start and the beginning of an end. The presence of figures registers itself as a negative, creating a physical boundary which contextualizes images in a spatial construct that loops itself in its own narrative.
Questioning perceptions as a form of accepted singularity, Joanne Lim’s body of work playfully questions the accepted state of surveillance, an interactive repositioning of the exchange of power involved in seeing and being seen. The viewer and performance subtly become an act of gentle resistance to the current state of affairs, resulting in an active levelling of interest.
Poetically, Smiha Kapoor’s body imagery in relation to landscape fundamentally subjugates a colonial and male gaze and articulates an act of rebellion. In her images, she transposes her body, curled in a foetal position, into various landscapes. She disrupts the objectification of the female body by placing its image within the recesses of the environment, To emphasize societal conditions within the female body, she jarringly recontextualizes and juxtaposes these images as extensions of power and reclamation of the space they inhabit.
The exhibition is only open on the following dates:
16th to 18th September 2022 – 12:00pm to 7:00pm
23rd to 25th September 2022 – 12:00pm to 7:00pm
17th September 2022 – 2:00pm (Artist/Curator Tour)