objects in the mirror
Co-Curator
Supernormal, Singapore
12 August - 12 September 2019
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[objects in the mirror] brings together selected works of artists Desiree Tham, Ryan Benjamin Lee, and Yeyoon Avis Ann, to unfold their use of perception-shifting strategies to reveal magical relationships between the material world and the mind.
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The fundamental desire to enchant underlies both art and magic, which equally harness illusion, perception and the fabrication of alternative versions of reality to return captivated audiences to a sense of naivety and awe. The exhibition raises possibilities of the magical in wilfully surrendering to an incomplete, and even non-rational understanding of the world; both as a comforting illusion in an incomprehensible world, and as an active belief in the impossible, against the banality of the everyday.
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Playing on the safety warning ‘objects in the mirror are closer than they appear’, it draws attention to the phenomenological experience of seeing, encountering, and believing.
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Preview of publication below.
Click here to read curatorial essay, best viewed in full screen.




