Numerous shows by emerging artists have opened at the Gillman Barracks. One to look out for includes Forget Me, Forget Me Not (pictured) by the artist with the golden touch, Priyageetha Dia, who is now represented by Yeo Workshop gallery. In this show, Dia transforms the visual and textual artefacts that document the history of Indian labourers in rubber plantations in Malaya, into a sensorial environment. To oppose forgetting, the artist suggests, we need new forms of telling. To that end, she’s combined computer-generated imagery with screen printed works onto latex, constructing a new narrative.
Over at Block 9, artist-curator Berny Tan is emerging as probably the busiest curator of her generation; she’s now onto her third exhibition of this year. Titled How We Learn(t), the exhibition brings together two new bodies of work that examine, deconstruct, and re-present existing systems of knowledge, from two young artists Hong Shu-ying and Syahrul Anuar, both of whom who were awarded the prestigious Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Photography last year.
Forget Me, Forget Me Not is on now till June 26 at Yeo Workshop at Gillman Barracks, 47 Malan Rd, #01-25. Meanwhile, How We Learn(t) is on now till June 5, at Gillman Barracks, 9 Lock Road, #02-21
