Wei Leng Tay | Artist

Staring into voids and blues

14 Sept-20 Oct 2024

Comprising photographic prints and installational forms, this exhibition continues Tay’s focus on how photographic and visual documents influence memory and our perception of history.

Developed over the past year, this exhibition revisits photographs as well as documents from Tay and her family’s past. The pieces rework archival images and

contemplate one’s relationship to an embodied past through various processes including digital imaging, historical contact printing, and the physical

manipulation of images. In the course of entwining depiction and materiality in meaning-making, Tay uses processes of abstraction and fragmentation to

question the configuration of memory.

The works in Staring into voids and blues reflect on relationships between private and public histories, and how they are embedded in the present. Linking personal archives to wider societal systems, this exhibition presents experimental and novel ways in Tay’s artistic approach to consider what a photograph is and how images can be interpreted. It ponders the resonances and influences between the images we see, make and live with.

Installation photos by Siobhan Yeow. Courtesy Yeo Workshop

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Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie (1928) is a black-and-white animated short film that is considered a landmark in animation history. The film stars Mickey Mouse in his first sound appearance and helped to usher in the era of synchronized sound cartoons. Steamboat Willie remains an iconic piece of popular culture today.

Hasui Kawase(May 18, 1883 – November 7, 1957) was a prominent Japanese painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and one of the chief printmakers in the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.

Kawase worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meishō (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Kawase's prints feature locales that are tranquil and obscure in urbanizing Japan.

In 1923 there was a great earthquake in Japan that destroyed most of his artwork.

Alphonse Legros(8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911), painter, etcher and sculptor was born in Dijon.

As he had casually picked up the art of etching by watching a comrade in Paris working at a commercial engraving, so he began the making of medals after a walk in the British Museum, studying the masterpieces of Pisanello, and a visit to the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris. Legros, considered the traditional journey to Italy a very important part of artistic training, and in order that his students should have the benefit of such study he devoted a part of his salary to augment the income available for a travelling studentship. His later works, after he resigned his professorship in 1892, were more in the free and ardent manner of his early days—imaginative landscapes, castles in Spain, and farms in Burgundy, etchings like the series of "The Triumph of Death," and the sculptured fountains for the gardens of the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey.