Exhibition Introduction

Conversations is a site-specific installation at the Objectifs store by Lee Chang Ming, as a part of Site Unseen — a programme by Objectifs that invites artists and image makers to create site-specific image-based works for spaces outside of a conventional gallery. Through this, it proposes new ways of encountering everyday spaces that have been overlooked.

“As a photographer and publisher, I spend time editing and sequencing images, thinking about how viewers will encounter the photos — whether it is in a physical gallery, book, or online — and how words should accompany it. These encounters are filtered through my subjective reading of the images, which led me to question: how do images get their meaning, and who decides what it means?

For this project, I am interested in exploring the relationship between photography, text, and subjectivity. When meanings in images and text are combined, it can evoke thoughts or feelings not present in either one. There will be three stages for this project. First, I will present personal photographs in Objectifs’ space without much context. Second, I will get a collaborator to respond to those images in the physical space with text. Lastly, I will get another collaborator to contribute text in response to the same set of photographs, but presented in the form of a zine.”

Exhibition Details

• Conversations
• Date: 1 Mar to 1 Jul 2022
• Time: Tue – Sat 12:00-19:00 | Sun 12:00-16:00
• Venue: Objectifs - Centre for Photography and Film
• Address: 155 Middle Rd, Singapore 188977

Informations Source: Objectifs - Centre for Photography and Film's official website