The Onlooker- Geraldine Kang
Visual artist Geraldine Kang is an intimate onlooker to the sessions, documenting the project with articles that combine pensive images with introspective writing about the project process and everyday life. // Geraldine (b. 1988) is a visual artist working and living in Singapore. She graduated with a BFA in Photography and Digital Imaging from the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University. Geraldine’s relationship with photography funnels into two main threads, firstly by using the medium as a private introspective channel, and secondly by exploring the undercurrents and ambivalences of familiar places. She also occasionally experiments with illustration and writing. Her latest projects home in on Singapore, featuring ubiquitous yet overlooked or distant spaces and infrastructures. geraldinekang.weebly.com Favourite love song: When You Say Nothing At All by Ronan Keating // "'The Handbook of Everyday Secrets' invites participants to consider and approach the overlooked in the routine of everyday life, be it people, objects or ideas. I find this particularly pertinent to my interests as I also seek to bring to surface what exists quite blatantly in my immediate environment but usually glossed over. This outward-seeking exercise is just as introspective, compelling participants to think about their own positions and cultural filters in relation to Bendemeer, and examine their habits and inhibitions born of a familiar environment. In addition to a broadening of mental and emotional faculties towards the quotidian is also a challenge to express these new-found inner and physical spaces -- a development of spirit and language -- what I try also to embody in praxis." |
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