Garden of Eden
Year: 2021
Artist: Joanne Pang
Medium: Allkyd, bitumen, emulsion and watercolour on aluminium panel
Size: 12.5 x 240.5
Location: Tampines Plaza 2, Level 1 Lobby
The blossoming of life against the cyclical nature of time is evoked in the articulation of organic gestures and repetitive drags of bitumen strokes. Eden, the garden of earthly paradise believed to be inhabited by the first man and woman, is referenced as a starting point to question the (pre)transient grounds of the human condition. The artist probes into the porosity and creation of memory and life by staging fluid dialogues. She uses contrasting mediums while embracing spontaneity— negotiating the force of gravity with a language of abstraction.
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Joanne Pang
Born 1986, Singapore
Joanne Pang explores the relationships between memory, structure and
materiality through site-specific installations, paintings and drawings. Pang encapsulates the ephemeral sensibilities of time and its relationship to the tender nature of memory – its fluidity, stagnancy and the tensions in between. Through a soak stain technique in her paintings and drawings, the artist puts across simultaneously the push and pull of intentional action and inaction, of decisive strokes and languid flows. The resulting works are incredibly complex, that captures at once its paradoxical states. The exploration of these relationships are also translated through Pang’s sculptural and installation works, that span across the materials of bitumen, asphalt and metal.
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