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Stories told about painting continue to echo. It’s life and death; how it lives again. Zombie tales, universal stories and particular stories. I wanted to discover what could lie beneath,...
Stories told about painting continue to echo. It’s life and death; how it lives again. Zombie tales, universal stories and particular stories. I wanted to discover what could lie beneath, what I can release, and what lives. Cutting was not about reducing, as it was a way for me to uncover fictions and find ways forwards. The knife becomes my investigative lens. (Text by Ng Joon Kiat)
Furthering the exploration begun in Cosmeticised Paintings, paint and colour now assume more organic properties. Each painting’s body has been formed over a long period of layering paint to register a “thickness” of mass and time. The primal act of cutting opens up an avenue for material (and psychic) releases to take place. The resulting new visualities and compositions stimulate our imaginations. They also propose that narratives and representations are “latent” to the painting. Like a body’s organs, they belong to the painting, rather than derive simply from its surface.
Autopsy Paintings recall murder mystery stories and investigative work at the operation table. They also resonate with resurrection narratives both horrifying and hopeful. At once gruesome and fictional in quality, they mean to haunt the line between life and death, form and de-form, endings and beginnings. (Text by Isabelle Ching)
The Not Singapore Art Project: Migration to the Internet Country and Portable Identity. Some paintings at play: a flash solo by NG Joon Kiat, 18 May – 16 June 2024, Yeo Workshop, Singapore Searching Operations: Bodies Of Painting by Ng Joon Kiat, curated by Isabel Ching, 18 January – 6 April 2019, ADM Gallery, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore