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Graduation Exhibition

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Friday 29 April —
Saturday 7 May 2022
1pm — 7pm daily
Foreword 04 Curatorial statement 13

Contents
Professor Adam Knee

Introduction 06 Artists 14
Hazel Lim-Schegel

Brave Negotiations 09 Acknowledgements 79

Stephanie Yeap

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Foreword
Greetings. I am delighted to be able that work—an ability which arises

Foreword
to welcome you to this year’s in turn from a rigorous educational
LASALLE BA(Hons) Fine Arts process that requires students to
graduation exhibition at the substantively research their areas
Winstedt Campus—delighted not of exploration as an integral part of
only because this year’s crop of their creative journeys.
works is so varied and stimulating,
but also because with the current So I say again, to our visitors:
reduction of COVID-19 restrictions welcome back to LASALLE. Please
we are now able to welcome a full explore, interact, and enjoy. And I say
audience back to experience this to our students and their teachers:
art as it was meant to congratulations on a terrific year and
be experienced: in-person, an exciting graduation show!
in real space and time, with
the opportunity to move
around and explore. These Prof Adam Knee
exciting and often intriguing Acting Head, McNally School of
works are the culmination of the Fine Arts
artists’ final year studies in their Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Media
programme at LASALLE, displayed, & Creative Industries
in fact, in the very studio spaces where LASALLE College of the Arts
they carried out their creative efforts over
the course of the year. You will have the
opportunity during this exhibition week
not only to interact with the works, but
also with the artists themselves, who will
be present in the studios to guide you
and discuss their creative processes and
creations. Please do not hesitate to ask
them whatever questions you may have
about these works. One thing that makes
us so proud of our LASALLE graduates
is their distinctive ability not only to
create work of substance, but also to
clearly articulate the concepts behind

05 Foreword
Intro-
duction
My Hands On My Seat presents 31 or appropriate. Some titles

Introduction
undergraduate students from the sounded overtly blunt and cutting,
BA(Hons) Fine Arts programme whilst others were somewhat sappy
whose works explore and address and poetic—all of which do not
issues that broadly relate to the seem to be a good fit for a cohort
post-pandemic world and exposes whom I felt, in my two to three
perhaps a discomforting and years of knowing them, to be more
tentative outlook towards an sardonic and possess a wry sense
uncertain future. of humour.

The programme has always In the end, we decided to

valued giving students ‘outsource’ this effort, using the
the ownership to organise text generator developed by one
and manage their own of the students, Billy Sng, to give
showcases, often providing us more options of what this title
supervision and guidance could be. Luckily, the AI generator
to these presentations which are gave us a bountiful number of phrases
otherwise very much student-led. that we could extract from its litany of
In the early stages of planning this prose. There were many to pick from,
graduation showcase, curatorial but, unanimously, we agreed that the
decisions were quickly resolved as visuals and sensations conjured from the
students participating in their annual phrase ‘my hands on my seat’, summed
seminar sessions gave clarity on how to up their collective feelings of possessing
situate and place works together in the a glimmer of hope despite the anxieties,
studio rooms. What was a unease and vulnerability.
little more challenging was
the title of the showcase. And I thought, how apt it is
Despite several rounds to collaborate with AI to help
of tossing out words us with the direction of this
in the WhatsApp showcase, as the past two years
group chat, have heightened this sense of
nothing working and living with technology,
appeared and the words ‘hybrid’ and ‘remote
to be teaching’ became accepted formats of
suitable learning.

07 Introduction
 As we cautiously I thank the students for your trust and
embrace opening up candidness, for sharing your insecurities
again and having more and doubts with us, giving us a peek into
physical meetings, I would how you perceive the world. And I thank
like to look back at the gains all the staff and visiting artists for your
we have made and learnt—from dedication and care, without which, it
the successful pivoting of the would have been a testing year navigating
One Night Only showcase to an online through the ups and downs of art-making
presentation, training our students to amid a pandemic environment.
effectively present themselves and their
works to wider online audiences, inviting Hazel Lim-Schlegel
a group of incredible guest speakers Programme Leader
locally and internationally who could now BA(Hons) Fine Arts
be a part of our seminars, workshops McNally School of Fine Arts
and classes because of Zoom, and
the adaptability of our staff and
students who find the most
innovative ways to engage with
technology and using it with
panache and style.

08 Introduction
When I heard about this year’s And perhaps the most exciting

Brave Negotiations
exhibition title, My Hands On My aspect was learning how these
Seat, I was struck by how intense it artists integrated a multitude of
sounded. It made me recall how I life experiences and pressing
used to fearfully grip the seats on sociopolitical concerns into
rollercoaster rides when I was a their practices. It was also
young child. And I can only imagine fascinating to see how some
how much of a ride the past few artists shared these interests,
years have been for this year’s but approached them from
graduating class. various angles. Undeniably,
there’s also a coming-of-
I can’t fathom how disruptive the age quality to all of this, as
pandemic must have been for the students realise their practices.
students, affecting studio practices
and the ability to be around In a society that’s rife with
classmates and soak up stimulating cultural expectations and
conversations. tropes, it’s gratifying to see
students navigate and realise their
But upon visiting the studios at the identities through their practices.
Winstedt Road campus, it’s evident Murni Khaliesah grapples with her
that these students pushed on and mother’s idea of a modern Muslim
continued pursuing the ideas that woman—one who’s successful
enraptured them. On my visit, I saw and domestic—by carving teapots
artists at various points in their process: and mugs out of whitening soaps, in
hunched over laptop screens, immersed an ode to her inability to sew or cook
in readings; bent over sprawling sheets as traditionally expected. By adopting
of paper with cutting knives and mark- the imagery of the sugee grain and the
making materials in their hands; gesture of pinching, Andrea Danker
tinkering with different technologies; explores her Eurasian heritage and
or simply chatting with classmates, strives to preserve her family’s stories.
sharing everything from art theory to
their anxieties around their impending Dylan Chan seeks to position queer
graduation. bodies in space by working with prints

09 Introduction
and images, which reimagines the as she nervously told me about her video
material of curtains and floorboards series on death and how the people
to symbolise interiority and physical we’ve lost continue to live through us.
boundaries. Using recurring images
of a world turned upside down, Afiqah Artists will inevitably respond to their
A’mran reconciles with her queerness immediate surroundings and find a
and changing relationships. way to position their practices within. In
an attempt to understand the hoarder
Intense emotional states also prove to be in her neighbourhood, documentary
strong foundations for some practices. photographer Rahman Binte
Jyoshita Gopinath physically charts Kamarulzaman brings together text and
her sense of loneliness and alienation image to shed light on the sentimental
by drawing out the paths she takes value of the hoarder’s objects. Longing
on walks, while Stephanie Leonardi for her home in Taiwan, Catherine
wrestles with her anxiety of the future by Chang makes domestic objects (such
contemplating the softness of textiles, as pillows) out of hardy materials
the hardness of ceramics, and how such as concrete and plaster. Ong
they might intertwine. Yee Yong foregrounds mundane
everyday situations by photographing
Death and the subjectivity of life have such scenes, but not before
captured the curiosity of artists since eavesdropping on conversations and
time immemorial. Yulie Jade tackles the reproducing them for all to read—
subject of memory loss by working offering an abstracted yet intimate
with the photos and archives of her take on quotidian situations.
dementia-stricken grandfather.
(“I’m really nervous!” she said, There’s no lack of practices
though with a smile) Investigating investigating traditional materials
the subjective, fickle nature and expanding on their potential.
of memory, Priscilla Quek’s Painting with a dizzying, vibrant
paintings and painted objects colour palette, Vanessa Seah
take references from transmutes images that delight
old photographs, whose her friends into ominous compositions
moments have been with eyeless heads, weeping clowns, and
forgotten by the artist. faces recalling the beaked masks of
Phoebe Lee shrugged plague doctors. Carrying on this interest

10 Introduction
in abstraction is textures of Clementi Forest; one of her
Kim Ji Hyun, who favourite green spaces in Singapore.
manipulates colour This proves poignant to me: any effort
to create objects that to memorialise a landscape that will
resemble other objects, such as a small soon give way to urban development is
sculpture that uncannily looks like a a profound one.
chunk of flesh.
Other students examine how technology
I’m told that Angelene Ho’s practice continues to be the primary mode
explores non-human-based movement of communication and upholding
as I looked at a work consisting of a paradigms of culture and safety. On
sheet of paper with charcoal shards Zeharn Lim’s CRT TV, I watch fuzzy
and marks scattered on it. I learned footage of him trying to outrun a
that these marks were the results of camera’s frame rate, in an attempt to
people passing by and accidentally question what exactly productivity entails.
brushing against the charcoal—making It’s one of the more absurd practices I
me wonder how unaware I have been learned about on the tour, but its surreal
about unconsciously impacting the world nature nonetheless makes me
around me. chuckle. Investigating
screens and the ability
This cohort has an adventurous streak to manipulate space
that I admire, especially as their final through them, Shibani
show draws closer. With wood planks Anand Gaikwad tells me
strewn all over her workspace, Myo Thet about how she plans
Hnin tells me that her interest in the to use iPads, TVs and
material stems from sheer curiosity and projections to realise
that hopes to explore her fluctuating these ideas.
personal relationships with people she
knows back in her home of Myanmar. Chang Xuan Hu
examines how society
In the age of climate change, it’s consumes cuteness
unavoidable that ecological concerns through tech, as she
find their way into art. I’m moved by tells me about her
how Harshita Agarwal uses rubbing plans to create
techniques to capture the physical a ‘social media

11 Introduction
goddess’ and how kawaii (the Japanese that they represent. Something else I
concept of cuteness) culture and anime admire about this year’s cohort is how
play a role in her investigation. vulnerable some of them have been in
their practices, bravely negotiating
On the other hand, Joanne Lim’s their identities and not compromising
practice critically highlights the on what matters to them the most.
state’s surveillance methods.
She draws my attention to a There’s no doubt that this graduating
surveillance camera on the studio cohort has important things to say.
wall (which I completely failed My heart flutters at the thought of
to spot) and encourages me to what these students will create and the
climb a ladder to look within. The people they will inspire once they let
lens plays a performance video of go and rise from their seats.
her ascending a ladder to look at
the surveillance camera directly in Ready, set, go.
the eye; making us contemplate the
imbalance of power that forms the Stephanie Yeap
fabric of society.

As someone who works in the arts &

cultural industry, I’m always optimistic
about emerging artists and all the
new ideas and diverse voices

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My Hands On My Seat BA(Hons) Fine Arts Winstedt

Curatorial statement
The absurd imagery chaos and creation of the last
conjured by this title— three years by presenting the
originally generated by a diverse, yet parallel, practices. In
poetry AI—alludes to sitting tying together the various strands
on one’s own hands. It speaks of experimentations, concepts
as an attempt to orient the and inner workings, this showcase
body within a liminal space and ultimately culminates into a
at an uncertain time. My Hands presentation spanning 10 studios.
On My Seat is a showcase of 31
young artistic practitioners Indeed, this presentation addresses
on their journey, navigating the present moment of waiting
their way through their practices, as and watching, but it also acts as
they cross from this threshold into a testament to the development
the next. This sense of uncertainty at of these young artists and the progress
the precipice of a closing chapter leaves they have made. It is only by observing
much anticipation or dread as there is and holding the space were they able to
also the potential for action. My Hands realise what they present to us. To have
On My Seat acts as a precursor to the the courage to place their hands on their
event of stepping out into the real world. seats, propelling them to finally stand on
their own.
By foregrounding the body and human
experience with their reaction to both
significant and mundane events, this
showcase aims to give a form to the

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Artists
 Murni Rahmah Binte

Artists
Quek Khaliesah Kamarulzaman
Wei Ting Binte Uda
Shibani Anand
Vanessa Stephanie Gaikwad
Seah Jaq Leonardi
Toung Chan Xiao Peng
Hong Ting (Seow Pheng)

Click on artist names to jump to their work

Jyoshitaa Chang Ting Hsuan Yulie Jade Binte Katren
Liu Gopinath
Dylan Chan Atin Yeo Jin Chao
Yutian
Lee Jing Xuan, Ray Han
Muhammad Phoebe Billy Sng Wei Kan
Harshita Agarwal
Farizi Bin
Noorfauzi Lim Zeharn
Andrea
Rachael
Danker
Chang Xuan Hui
Danielle Xaviera
Priyamvada Kim Ji Hyun Chloe Poon Yen Chen
Bhanger
Myo Thet Hnin Lau Tse Xuan Erica Lim Song Yi
Ong Yee Yong
Nur Afiqah Binte Lim E-Lynn Joanne Ho Jia Qian, Angelene
Mohd A’mran

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Andrea Rachael Danker (b. 1996) is a

Andrea Rachael Danker

Malaysian visual artist that primarily
works with painting, drawing, assemblage
and notation. Her focus is on the minute,
and the smallness of things existing
within narratives of the self, human life,
and our past and present interactions.
Her interest lies in the amplification
of microstories and experiences
that explore themes of displacement,
constructs of home and the desire of
belonging within the wider landscape
of our surroundings. Without limiting
herself to a single medium, she
chooses media based on what
might best encapsulate the
concept she has in mind. Her
current research takes an
autobiographical approach,
seeking to unravel family
stories of sensorial and material
encounters through food and
gestures. In doing so, she subtly
highlights the notion of ‘otherness’
in her culturally mixed background
as an Eurasian, and how ‘otherness’
cuts across the intersections of
memory, place and acts of continuity
within the current realities of present
time. realities of present time.

IG: @andrea.r.danker
W: andreadanker.wixsite.com/
andreadanker

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 Making the most out of little encounters

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 Angelene Ho (b. 1996) is a Singaporean
Ho Jia Qian Angelene
artist whose work ranges from paintings
to installations and video performances.

Her practice emanates from ontological

questioning, investigating the role of
materiality, and achieving qualities of
openness and slowness in
her works. Liberated
from the conventional
formalism of painting and leaving
the process unadulterated to chance,
she constructs situations to capture
traces of ephemeral actions which
produce forms from energy. Her
exploration ranges from tool-making to
participatory art.

Angelene is a graduate of Nanyang

Academy of Fine Arts and the National
Institute of Education and is graduating
with a BA(Hons) Fine Arts from LASALLE
College of the Arts.

IG: @angelene.h

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Situations

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 Limitless liminality is the working title

Atin Yeo Jin Chao

of this drama. With an emphasis on
‘neither here nor there’, Atin is a painter
who grapples with concepts of identity,
displacement, family and trauma
through creative activities.

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 Left Citylight Serenade
Right Ode to Gone

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 Billy Sng is a research-based conceptual
Billy Sng Wei Kan
artist. His interests lie in the melancholy
of language and he
explores language and poetics through
machine-learning in his practice. This
useof machine-learning in art and writing
questions the nature of authorship,
intentionality and chance.

Currently, he is working on a novella

tentatively titled THE NEW MADNESS.
The book is written in collaboration with
AI that writes in his image, modelled from
his collection of found texts and personal
writings. Presented as a sculpture nailed
crudely to a wall, the book celebrates
the futility of writing by reducing writing
to an act, rather than a product for
consumption. However, as all books want
to be heard or read, vestiges of the
novella will be presented in contradiction
with the main work.

IG: @kangseulgifanaccount
@nomen.innominabile

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Lamentations

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Chan Hong Ting’s works tend to engage

Chan Hong Ting

with domestic objects or materials which
are familiar yet unassuming. Through her
experiments with drawing and crafting,
she is interested in bringing visibility to
the seemingly mundane and less noticed.
She is currently fascinated with
the transformative potential and
rhythmic process of working with
paper pulp, as well as the folds and
creases that mark time and states
of becoming.

Chan graduated with a Diploma in

Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the
Arts in 2020, specialising in
printmaking. She will be
graduating with a BA(Hons)
Fine Arts from LASALLE
College of the Arts in 2022.

IG: @htcreates
W: chanhongting.wixsite.com/hongting

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 Folds in Flux

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 Chang Ting Hsuan (Catherine) was born
Chang Ting Hsuan
in Taiwan in 1999 and is currently based
in Singapore. She is graduating with
a BA(Hons) Fine Arts from LASALLE
College of the Arts in 2022.

Catherine’s art practice is a reflection of

finding the intimate connection between
one’s emotions, memories and
experiences, and everyday
architecture and domestic objects.

Interested in seeking comfort from

images, objects or spaces, she
works with archives of architectural
photographs, built sculptures
and spatial installations.

She chooses cement and found objects

as materials to portray a homely feeling
in her works. The aim of her art practice
is to understand simplicity as the
ultimate sophistication.

IG: @la.vender_creates
W: tinghsuanchang0726.wixsite.com/home

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Embodied spaces

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Graduating from Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Chang Xuan Hui

with a Diploma in Psychology, Xuan
Hui is currently pursuing a BA(Hons)
Fine Arts degree at LASALLE College
of the Arts, where she continues to
investigate the governing entities of
society in contemporary and raw ways.
Drawing from East Asian pop culture and
subculture media, games and aesthetics,
she infuses her work with the “kawaii” as
a form of mitigation to make conversing
about the undesirable, desirable. Her
practice is multimedia in nature,
with pieces ranging from found
objects, fabricated objects,
digital illustration, digital avatars,
cosplay and installation.

IG: @cephalopod.tako

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 God wants to be cute too!

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 Danielle Poon (b. Singapore) is a
Danielle Poon
multidisciplinary artist who works in
the medium of painting, resin and
photography. Her practice reflects in
notions of psychology and the everyday,
presenting them through a repertoire
of eclectic colours and process-driven
techniques. She is keen in creating art
which functions as vessels for growth
and healing.

Danielle is a recipient of the 2020 Ngee

Ann Young Promising Artist Award, and
was one of the finalists in the Angelico
Art Award in 2016 and 2018. She actively
participates in local and international
group exhibitions, including
The Sketchbook Project, Streets
of Hope, to feel ourselves
again and the 16th Ngee Ann
Photographic Exhibition.

Danielle is currently
in her final year of
BA(Hons) Fine Arts
programme at
LASALLE College
of the Arts.

IG: @studiogremlin.sg
W: www.daniellepoon.com

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Charms Against Adversity 2022

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He is graduating with a BA(Hons) Fine

Dylan Chan
Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts
in 2022, after previously graduating
from LASALLE’s Diploma in Fine Arts
programme in 2018. Since then, he has
been nominated for the prestigious
TAKIFUJI Art Award, and was awarded
the Winston Oh Travel Award, which
allowed him to travel to Tokyo, Japan.

In his works he abstracts instances from

everyday life and draws from memories
and reminiscences centred around
intimacy. Primarily an image-maker he
composes and weaves together images
into a textured landscape, often telling
solitary narratives.

His work addresses the body and ideas

surrounding visibility, attempting to
understand the narratives of the
peripheral figure that weaves
into and out of the everyday
frame. The starting point
for his practice begins with
contemplations about the body
within private spaces slowly
working outwards, capturing
quiet moments of intimacy.

IG: @wip_dyl
W: dylanchanrh.wix.com/artist

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 Peering Through (Bloom)

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 Erica is a 2D artist who greatly enjoys
Erica Lim Song Yi
illustration work and figurative drawing.
With a background in multimedia and
animation, she has past
experience in digital art.

During her time in LASALLE

College of the Arts, she has worked
on traditionally across different
media as well. She has dabbled in
both traditional and digital art, aiming
to become an illustrator with a wide
and flexible set of skills. Erica values the
quality of empathy, and has employed
a sense of empathy in many of her works,
sometimes starting from herself and
sometimes aiming to draw it out from
her audience.

IG: @spookmctoasty

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Sleeping City

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A visual artist with a deep interest in

Harshita Agarwal
exploring the ever-changing relationship
between humans and nature, Harshita
takes a mixed media approach to
investigate general human behaviour
in a particular landscape. Currently,
she is working on field-based
artworks and exploring the
materiality of the land which
complements the approaches
taken by her, such as mark-
making, mapping, layering,
and weaving.

Harshita will graduate with

a BA(Hons) Fine Arts degree from
LASALLE College of the Arts.

IG: @agarwalharshita30
W: harshitaagarwal.portfoliobox.net

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 1.330 N, 103.780 E

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 Ji Hyun is a visual artist who works
Jihyun Kim
on painting and sculptures, based
on digitised images collected from
diverse sources, ranging from her own
collections and social media to stock
images.

Using found images as the entry point for

creating, she mainly uses the airbrush
technique to explore the sensory
experiences of digital spaces as mediated
through screen surfaces.

Her imagery see-saws between

abstraction and figuration, with colour
palettes which recall a cognizable image,
while dissolving an a priori assumption of
the viewer through the abstraction of the
depicted image.

The play around an image and its

translation to paintings also points to a
sense of intimacy and distance, which
refers to both the artist’s involvement in
painting, and the distance between the
image and the painter herself.

Her practice constantly attempts to

embody virtual experience into a
physical reincarnation, even if this may
verge on pseudo-science.

IG: @jlilmn
W: jihyunkim946276477.wordpress.com

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Sweet Burn

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Jyoshitaa is an Indian artist who

Jyoshitaa Gopinath
works widely with psychogeography
in embroidery, illustrations and
photography. She is revisiting her
memories and healing from her trauma
through her art.

IG: @the_peinteure

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 Lonely nights

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 Lau Tse Xuan (b. 2000) is a creative
Lau Tse Xuan
working in the media of video,
sculpture and installations. Her
interest lies in the artificial
phenomena drawing connections
between nature and code. Employing
generative processes in her works
to emulate textures, movement
and sounds, she seeks out the
possibilities of a digital nature
functioning as a platform for rest,
to evoke aesthetic experiences
for the viewer.

Tse Xuan is a graduate of the

School of the Arts Singapore and
is graduating with her BA(Hons)
Fine Arts from LASALLE College of
the Arts. Her works have been featured
in group exhibitions such as Hi-atus
(2021), Fluid Spaces (2021), and Tracing
Latencies (2022) at Goethe Institute of
Singapore, under the collective Mouse
Click Click. Recently, she was conferred
the Prize of Excellence in the 42th
International Takifuji Arts Award (2021).

IG: @txuan_
W: vimeo.com/user155959462

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swell

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Joanne Lim will graduate with a BA(Hons)

Lim E-Lynn Joanne

Fine Arts degree from LASALLE
College of the Arts. She is interested in
translating and visualising data that
she collects in long-term projects
that involve collaborative
partnerships with
individuals, communities
and the exploration of the environment
around her. Her practice unfolds through
various media such as photography,
video, generative art, painting and
assemblage that addresses social issues.

IG: @elynnjo
W: www.limelynnjoanne.com

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 Catopticon

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 Lim Zeharn (b. 1999) is a Singaporean
Lim Zeharn
artist whose works range from designed
objects to kinetic sculptures and video
performances. He employs wit and
absurdity to respond to familiar
conditions of modern living such as
mundanity, exhaustion and passivity.

Zeharn is a graduate of the School

of the Arts Singapore and is due
to complete his BA(Hons) Fine Arts
degree at LASALLE College of the Arts
in May 2022. He has been featured in
exhibitions and festivals internationally
including, Australia, China, Germany,
Japan, Korea, London, and Singapore.
Since 2015, he has also served as curator
and initiated several independent arts-
related projects. For his work, Zeharn
was named a finalist in the IMPART
Awards 2019.

Aside from art, he also sustains a design

and film practice with his twin brother,
under Zeharn & Zeherng (ZZ).

IG: @zeharn
W: cargocollective.com/limzeharn

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Outrun

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Yutian (Meng Dongzhi) was born

Liu Yutian
in Jiangyin, China and graduated
from LASALLE College of the Arts
with a Diploma in Fine Arts in
2020. She continued pursuing her
undergraduate studies in fine arts at
LASALLE, and is graduating with a
BA(Hons) Fine Arts in 2022. She
is talented at illustration and
comics, and hopes to convey
her views and thoughts to people
through both media.

IG: @asriell.liu
W: liuyutian.wixsite.com/02200059

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 重合

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 farizi (b. 1998, Singapore) is interested
Farizi Noorfauzi
in the relations between memory and
identity, in an attempt to reaffirm his
tendencies of forgetting things easily
but not consciously. Working through
sculpture, performance, text, video
and music, farizi is interested in modes
of unbecoming, with a keen focus on
doing things wrongly. He is currently in
his final year of the BA(Hons) Fine Arts
programme at LASALLE College of
the Arts.

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ORNAMENT AND CRIME (STUDY)

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Murni Khaliesah Binte Uda (b. 1997,

Murni Khaliesah Binte Uda

Singapore) is a contemporary artist who
graduated from the Nanyang Academy
of Fine Arts in 2018 with a Diploma
in Fine Arts. She is graduating with
a BA(Hons) Fine Arts from LASALLE
College of the Arts in 2022.

Her artistic practice focuses on re-

contextualising found objects and
photographs as she attempts to
unravel the different aspects of the self,
confronting lost memories and analysing
them within a series of sculptures
and collages. Her current works revolve
around gender expectations and the
concept of matrophobia.

Murni has participated in several

group exhibitions at NAFA’s The Grad
Expectations in Objectifs in 2018,
Chrysalis at Alliance Française in 2021,
and recently No Harm, No Foul at the
Praxis and Project Spacesin 2022. Murni
has also worked with performance
artist Sabrina Koh on Dream Market
(ITALICISE TITLE) at the Outsider Fashion
Art Festival in 2017, as well as
documented Lynn Lu’s recent
performance, (ITALICISE) Be
Afraid Only of Standing Still,
at the Children’s Biennale at National
Gallery Singapore in the same year.
IG: @unicornasses
W: www.mernzku.wixsite.com/main

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 A Mother’s Touch

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Myo Thet Hnin
Born in Yangon, Myanmar, Myo is an
artist currently residing in Singapore.
She completed her Diploma in Fine
Arts in 2020. During her time as an
undergraduate in the BA(Hons) Fine
Arts programme at LASALLE College of
the Arts, Myo developed an interest in
creating art that draws inspiration from
language, philosophy and curiosity.

IG: @play.groundx

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Left I waited so I could walk Right it still feels as though we are
with you separated by distance, not existence,
never in the same room again

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Afiqah is graduating with a BA(Hons)

Nur Afiqah Binte Mohd A’mran

Fine Arts degree from LASALLE College
of the Arts. Through painting, she
wishes to explore the intricacies of social
interactions and the intimate moments
that can be shared between two souls.

Her works have been displayed in

multiple exhibitions, including Fresh
Take (2021) by Cuturi Gallery, Chrysalis,
Desiring Bodies (2021) by LASALLE
College of the Arts and When You Were
Mine (2021) by Cuturi Gallery.

IG: @afqamran.art

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 Portraits of you in my head

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Ong Yee Yong
Ong Yee Yong (b. 1997, Singapore)
is a printmaking artist who
works in a variety of media. By
examining ambiguity and
origination through retakes
and variations, she aims
to enhance the dynamic between
audience and author by objectifying
emotions and investigating the duality
that develops through different
interpretations.

Her artworks question the conditions of

appearance of an image in the context
of the contemporary visual culture in
which images, representations and
ideas normally function. By studying
sign processes, signification and
communication, she intends for the
viewer to become part of the art, as an
added component. She believes that art
is entertainment: to be able to touch
the work and interact with the work is
important.

She makes work that generates diverse

meanings — associations and meanings
collide, space becomes time and
language becomes image.

W: ongyeeyong.wixsite.com/ongyeeyong

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Atlas of the Ordinary

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Phoebe Lee (b. 1997, Singapore)

Lee Phoebe
graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art
at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
and is graduating with a BA(Hons) Fine
Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts
in 2022. She was awarded the Arts
Bursary in 2017 and the MOE Bursary
in 2018 and 2019. She also interned
at The 8th Floor Creative Space and
is an instructor and technician at
Am I Addicted. In order to widen her
knowledge in arts and culture, she has
gone for cultural exchange programmes
in Laos and the Philippines.

In her practice, she uses clay

as her main medium as it
can manifest in different
forms, which are often for
the purpose of function,
rather than appearance.

IG: @phoebsthepothead

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 you could’ve told me before you left

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 Priscilla is a multidisciplinary artist
Quek Wei Ting Priscilla
who focuses mainly on painting
and textile works. Her interests lie in
domestic settings and familiar
landscapes. Through
recreating recognisable
objects and spaces,
Priscilla hopes to explore
her conflicts with
memory, and allow
her audience to find
similar resolutions.

IG: @quekweiting.sg

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Multifaceted Facades of #05-478

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Priyamvada is a multidisciplinary artist

Priyamvada Bhanger
who primarily works with the media
of painting, drawing, animation and
video art. She experiments with the
translation of works from one medium
to another, as a way of looking at the
ideas of mediation and remediation. Her
work uses methods of deconstruction
and reconstruction, with balance and
composition as key elements. She
is constantly inspired by everyday
happenings and objects around her,
which often inform her work. She
is the recipient of LASALLE’s
Future Leader Scholarship
(2019) and has participated in
multiple group shows in both
Singapore and India.

IG: @bhangerpriyamvada_art
W: priyambhanger.cargo.site

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 Remeditated

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 Rah (b. 1995, Singapore) is a practicing
Rahmah Kamarulzaman
artist who explores the intricate
relationships between people and objects,
focusing on compulsive habits and
obsessions within the human psyche.
She works primarily with both analogue
and digital photography as her medium.
In recent years, Rah’s photographic
body of work has focused on the borders
ofhoarding—an inability to discard
possessions—and collecting, questioning
the connections between the two
behaviours as well as what makes one
nomative and the other pathological. Her
practice reveals long-standing interests
in psychology, relationships to material
objects and altering the narratives of
objects and found materials.

IG: @phtograh
W: rahmahkamarulzaman.weebly.com

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Spaces of Accumulation

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Shibani Gaikwad (b. 1996) completed

Shibani Gaikwad
her Diploma in Interior Design from India
and is graduating with a BA(Hons) Fine
Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts in
Singapore.

With her roots in the architectural realm,

Shibani’s art practice is based on the
navigation of spatial narratives
through moving images. She
nurtures a keen interest in
the new media form of the
contemporary art world. She is
currently realising and exploring
the critical relationship between
everyday perceived spaces, and film,
video and cinema, as the skin of these
narrative spaces.

Movement in the image seen on screen

and dramatic choreography of lighting,
framing, colour and textures form a
basis for the level of affect created by
the cinematic space. Her works revolve
around investigating this correlation
between the viewer and the moving
image. How do changes in the structure
of a video affect the viewer and what
role is played by a screen in establishing
a link between the subject and object
of the image? She is also interested in
knowing and exploring the architecture
of the gallery in conjunction with the
display of moving images.
IG: @three_tv_inatrolley_

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 we (would) encounter an angle

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 Stephanie Leonardi (b. 1999, Indonesia) is
Stephanie Leonardi
a visual artist who primarily works with
textiles and ceramics, exploring the
beauty and intimacy of materiality
in her practice. Centered around
unconventional sculpture-making,
Stephanie’s works emphasise
textures, forms and folds. Her
recent ceramics series looks
into the notion of creation
through destruction, exploring
crochet and knitting as an entry
point into unpacking the ideas of time,
labor and modern leisure. Stephanie
is graduating with a BA(Hons) Fine Arts
from LASALLE College of the Arts.

IG: @more.siren
W: stephanieleonardi.wixsite.com/mysite

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White Dove

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 Vanessa Seah
Vanessa Seah (b. 1998) is an artist based
in Singapore who works primarily with oil
paints. By allowing a quiet introspection
of things that bring her sentimental
value, such as music, films, conversation
and memories, her artworks aim to
document her abstract emotions and
reactions to these items pictorially.

Her creative process starts with

mind-mapping or crafting quick
sketches that directly respond to
her intuition. These sketches may
serve as self-referential prompts that
encourage her to build her painting
intuitively and spontaneously.

Her art-making process includes

working with vibrant colors and many
layers of paint to capture an other-
worldly dimension — a dimension
that narrates her hopes, dreams, and
emotional thoughts. Distorted human
figures are often recurring characters in
her paintings as she focuses on creating
a dream-like outcome which removes the
viewer’s ability to relate to her paintings.
By adding these distorted figures, she
humanises her paintings whilst insinuating
that these painting were not meant to
appease another individual’s sentiments.

IG: @photosynthesigh
W: www.vanessaseah.com

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 Left Sad but make it funny ha ha
Right We need to talk

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Xiao Peng (Seow Pheng)
Born in 1977 in Singapore, Xiao Peng
started out as a documentary filmmaker,
and has since broadened his practice
to include the field of visual arts
as an extended way to explore
the documentary form and its
relationship to art-making.

Hi artistic projects are situated

in the public space, motivated
by his desire to explore
the compexities of social
arrangements that emerge
from and are a determinant of
individual actions.

He recognises the importance of

developing new understandings of
localised forms through the process
of engagement, to interrogate his own
perception of difference, and challenge
fixed identities in our highly industrialised
nation. He conducts immersions in a site
community and often considers people
and situations as part of the artistic
medium and material in his art-making
process. As a result, his work often takes
on different iterations with varying forms
and formats at different sites and spaces.

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Project Framing Balikpapan

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 Yulie Jade Binte Katren
Yulie Jade is an aspiring young
artist who wishes to expand her
understanding of fine arts. After
graduating from BCAA’s Diploma Interior
Design program, she found herself
drawn back to the arts, in particular the
practice of photography and working
with archived materials.

Jade’s main aesthetics of work

revolves around the ideas of nostalgia
and sentiment, and she is presently
working on a piece related to her
grandfather’s photographs. There
are hints of loss and despair in her
artworks which portray the loss
of relationship or connection to
someone she cherishes.

Upon graduation, she would love to

target audiences/creators who either
relate to or create works similar to
what she has done during her time in
LASALLE. She aims to engage with the
public to share and exchange individual
stories. In future works, she would like
to expand her knowledge by learning
about different cultural backgrounds,
which will encourage her to step out
of her comfort zone and embark on a
journey to understand diverse human
interactions and behaviors.

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 Memoir

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 Acknowledgements
LASALLE College of the Arts Adjunct lecturers
Ashley Yeo
Professor Steve Dixon, President
Clara Peh
Venka Purushothaman, Provost
Donna Ong
Ezzam Rahman
Geraldine Kang
Faculty of Fine Arts, Media Hilmi Johandi
& Creative Industries Jon Chan
Professor Adam Knee, Dean Khairullah Rahim
Lam Fung
Luke Heng
McNally School of Fine Arts Marvin Tang
Hazel Lim-Schlegel, Programme Leader, Michael Lee
BA(Hons) Fine Arts Muhammad Dhiya Bin Rahman
Jeremy Sharma, Lecturer Sebastian Mary Tay
Dr Wang Ruobing, Lecturer Shane Ng
Dr Ian Woo, Programme Leader, Shirley Soh
MA Fine Arts Simon Ng
Adeline Kueh, Senior Lecturer, Tan Guoliang
MA Fine Arts Woon Tien Wei
Jeffrey Say, Programme Leader,
MA Asian Art Histories
Dr Cedric Van Eenoo, Programme Leader, Visiting artists
Diploma in Fine Arts Divaagar
Dr S. Chandrasekaran, Senior Lecturer Geraldine Kang
Salleh Japar, Senior Lecturer Grace Tan
Zarina Muhammad, Lecturer Lynn Lu
Nadiah Oh, Lecturer Mike Chang
Erzan Adam, Lecturer Ruben Pang
Azlina Adams, Technical Officer,
Printmaking
Koh Kwang Wei, Technical Officer, Special thanks
Sculpture We’ll also like to extend our thanks to the
Divisions of ICT, Facilities, as well as the library
staff for their unending support and patience.
Puttnam School of Film & Animation
Urich Lau, Lecturer
Curatorial team
Billy Sng Wei Kan
School of Design Communication Dylan Chan Ray Han
Andreas Schlegel, Senior Lecturer Harshita Agarwal
Kim Ji Hyun
Lau Tse Xuan
Lim E-Lynn Joanne

Extended curatorial team

Farizi Noorfauzi
Lim Zeharn
Priscilla Quek Wei Ting

79 Acknowledgements