Group Exhibition Objectifs - Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
Curated by Ang Siew Ching
Creative Authors (Exhibition Participants): Lee Wen (via Bruce Quek), Chua Ek Kay, (via estate of Chua Ek Kay), Debbie Ding, Marc Nair, Rachel Bok, Randy Chan, ila, Tang Da Wu
n Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography, Geoffrey Batchen discusses the origins of photography in terms of how proto-photographers did not possess the concept of a transparent reality that can be represented through photography. Like opening one’s eyes for the first time, these proto-photographers were divided on what exactly a photograph should look like and what aspects of reality are to be captured.
Invoking such troubled origins of photography, this exhibition expands the idea of what photography can be, by proposing photography as a node in creative thinking endeavours of various disciplines. The eight “creative authors” in this exhibition include artists, an architect, a writer and an academic. They do not profess to use photography as their main medium, and yet all take an active and subjective approach to photography. Some create photographs as playful experimentation, others make snapshots as a form of note-taking or simply an impulse, and yet others use photographs to orient themselves in real or virtual spaces.
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