Imagining a Geographical Presence: A Study of Horizon in Contemporary Painting exhibition. Image Courtesy of Ng Joon Kiat
"Where and when does a line end? Ng has knitted painted strokes and linear forms into densely layered imaginary maps that overlap and re-map spaces in multiple dimensions. Twining, intersecting, knotting and spinning in space, these painted markings form trail maps of Ng’s thought process.
By compelling the paint to undertake a literal passage through the silkscreen cloth, Ng illustrates how the organic nature of paint as visual substance, through the process of painting, is constantly affected by its own changing physical states as well as its interactions with other elements, whether of cloth, air, or the passing of time.
The Map Drawing Series is a reminder that what we see in works of art, like a map, can only be a topographical guide abstracted from a larger reality."
Map Drawing Series presented in a Drawing Cabinet. Images courtesy of Ng Joon Kiat.
