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Kai Wasikowski, Realtree #3, 2017 pure pigment on archival paper 90 x 115 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore.
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Heo Subin, Fluorescent Light, 2015, backlight photo output, LED, non-reflective glass 60 x 120 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore.
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Yang Yongliang, Flooding, 2016, Film on lightbox, 29 x 34 x 18.5 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore.
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Adeela Suleman, I Don't Want to be There When it Happens, 2014-2017 hand-beaten stainless steel, iron and bulb, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Keir Foundation.
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Georgina Cue, Light Works, 2012, embroidery on tapestry canvas and hardwood, Window: 156 x 74 x 10 cm, Carpet: 174 x 202 x 1 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore.
Exhibition
Trompe-l’œil
14 Apr 2018 – 13 May 2018
Event times
Tuesdays - Saturdays: 11am - 7pm
Sundays: 11am - 6pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 5 Lock Road #01-06 Gillman Barracks
- Singapore
Singapore - 108933
- Singapore
Travel Information
- Nearest Bus Stop: Along Alexandra Road Opposite Alexandra Point (Bus Stop Number 15059) Available Buses: 51, 57, 61, 83, 97, 97e, 100, 166, 175, 408, 963 or 963E
- Nearest MRT Train Station: Labrador Park (Circle Line station CC27) Walking Directions from Labrador Park Station (~10 mins): 1. Exit Labrador Park station via Exit A and walk towards Alexandra Road. 2. Stay on the opposite side of the road from Alexandra Retail Centre (ARC) Shopping Mall. 3. At the first bus stop, take the sheltered walkway on your right into Gillman Barracks.
Continuing Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore’s focus on bridging the arts between Australia and Asia, Trompe-l’œil marks Dr. Mikala Tai’s first curated show in Southeast Asia, promising trajectories that are personal yet universal.
About
There is something unnerving about a trompe-l’œil. Such trickery of perspective ruptures the trust we place in our vision, our eyes onto the world. Our ability to perceive reality and discern truth is questioned the moment our eye is deceived. No longer able to trust our observations the once taut veneer of actuality suddenly appears fragile. In this moment the peculiarities of contradictions allow new perspectives to emerge and we are, briefly, able to look at the everyday anew.
Trompe-l’œil brings together six artists from across Asia and Australia who seek to reimagine understandings and expectations. Their works, although diverse, all use artistic techniques to recast our readings of the everyday. Through holographic shifts, tessellated shadows and unexpected flickers the works reveal alternative futures and dark realities. With the comfort of expectation lost the viewer is invited to consider, in that moment of rupture, the expanded possibilities of new perspectives.
