Esplanade Presents

Visual Arts | Talk

Artists Tour: Crossing Thresholds

Fajrina Razak, Ben Loong and Tiffany Loy (Singapore)

24 Jan 2025, Fri, 12.30pm

1hr

(Intermission: None)

Esplanade Recital Studio Foyer (Meeting point: Jendela, 15mins before start time)

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Synopsis

Crossing Thresholds explores the ways artists engage with and push the boundaries of mediums with longstanding traditions and that are deeply rooted in human civilisation. This exhibition presents the works of three artists and their artmaking approaches—Fajrina Razak with batik, a wax-resistant technique of dyeing textiles; Ben Loong with ceramic craft; and Tiffany Loy with the textile production method of weaving. 

 

Join us at the Tour of Crossing Thresholds as the artists share their practices and the processes of conceptualising and creating the works in this exhibition. 

Admission Age:
6 and above.
Language: English
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Artist Information

Fajrina Razak

The work of Fajrina Razak (b.1989, Singapore) materialises from an analysis-approach practice. She uses traditional materials and contemporary methods as conduits for the archival of knowledge to form inquiries on historical references related to Austronesia and Southeast Asia at large. Fajrina adopts an embodied approach to ethnoecological practices, reclaiming animistic practices and folk healing rituals in the syncretic Nusantara as attempts at re-indigeneity, decolonisation and remediation with the natural world amidst hyper development.

Ben Loong

Working at the intersection of painting and sculpture, Ben Loong (b.1988, Singapore) explores themes of utility within traditional craftsmanship. By manipulating industrial and mass-produced materials and observing textures and patterns in the everyday, his practice attempts to challenge the value systems embedded in material culture. His exhibitions include Squaring the Circle, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore (2021), Ancient Future Myths, AC43 Gallery, Singapore (2021) and FrictionaL, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore (2018). He was part of the Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Residencies Programme in 2023.

Tiffany Loy

Tiffany Loy (b.1987, Singapore) is trained in industrial design and textile-weaving. Her background in product and textile design informs her unique approach in creating materials with minute details, with an awareness of their impact in a spatial context. Employing a weaver’s approach to sculpture, Loy explores fundamental relationships between colour, structure and tension. Her works have been exhibited locally and internationally at venues such as Singapore Art Museum, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and La Triennale di Milano.

Date & Time

24 Jan 2025, Fri

12.30pm

Esplanade Recital Studio Foyer
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