An uncanny assortment of miscellaneous objects──Taiwan & Singapore International artists Exchange Exhibition

An uncanny assortment of miscellaneous objects──Taiwan & Singapore Internationalartists Exchange Exhibition

An uncanny assortment of miscellaneous objects is a Singapore-Taiwan art exchange exhibition co-curated by Nien-Ting Chen (TW) and Jaxton Su (SG). The exhibition occurring across both countries will bring everyday objects to the fore in an attempt to discuss the imperative of current issues with the peculiarity of daily commodities in a post-material world. Establishing the possibilities of cross-cultural dialogues, ten Singaporean and Taiwanese millennial artists will be invited to present works that touch on various habitual tendencies of modernity through the use of common objects, and at the same time, highlight the absurdity and contradictions behind these realities.

台灣與新加坡和許多東南亞國家一樣，是由多民族組成的多元文化國家，彼此的人民生活方式相近又各自發展出獨特的民族特性，使得我們有著許多相似卻又相異的共同記憶。本展覽邀請十組生活在新加坡與台灣的青年藝術家以日常物件發展出新作並發表於台灣與新加坡兩國。藝術家呈現的新作結合了海內外社會時事觀察及藝術家長期發展與關注的議題，透過藝術創作的(再)詮釋，呼應人與社會價值之間的適應關係，進而重新定義或質疑現今所處的生活型態與體制，在不斷流動生成的狀態中勾勒未來圖景，提供台灣與新加坡觀眾對彼此間更多深層的理解與體驗。
由來自台灣陳念庭與新加坡Jaxton Su策展人進行更靈活的發展，特別提出雙邊策展模式，在一個共同的策展研究脈絡上，以跨國的外來視角交叉觀察與討論，為展覽帶來了不同的切入點，建構出蓬勃且具有實驗性藝術場域。