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拍品專文
This season, Christie's is pleased to present the iconic, award-winning works of three young Singaporean photographers working to advance the very boundary of art practice today surrounding the medium of photography.
Zhao Renhui is one of Singapore's most promising young contemporary artist working primarily with photography but often in a multi-disciplinary way by combining images with videos, documents and objects. Working in association with a self-created research institute, The Institute of Critical Zoologists (ICZ), his works have been described as testing the "principles behind the dissemination of knowledge and acceptance of truths". Expedition #9 (Lot 7232) emerges from the Glacier Study Group series, a fictional research group purportedly initiated by ICZ to study the effect of impact of global warming on the Arctic environment. The series has been nominated for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize and Expedition #9 has been exhibited in Singapore and Beirut.
Emerging Singaporean photographer Samantha Thio's Concrete Euphoria: Mongkok, Hong Kong (Lot 7231) is a photo-exploration of the bustling iconic Mongkok. Working with a large format camera, creating multi-exposures within the frame, she highlights some of the most distinctive elements of Asian cities, interpreting them in a multi-dimensional and layered approach seen in the present lot. This technique renders familiar places as fantastical and sublime, so that the city may be seen with new eyes.
Joel Yuen's Anatomical Fantasies of Meat (Web, Organ, Feet) (Lot 7233) comes from one of the emerging artist's earliest body of work that won him recognition on the national level in Singapore when it won the top prize at the 27th UOB Painting of the Year competition. Anatomical Fantasies of Meat combines the visual aesthetics and chiaroscuro effect of the best of traditional Italian and Dutch still-life paintings, but superbly executed in the medium of photography. Bringing across the idea that "[m]en, since antiquity, has taken dominion over animals to serve our needs and demands", the work presents a "fantasy created from the organs and flesh of various animals will serve as a reminder of human ingenuity, creativity and sometimes, bestiality".
Zhao Renhui is one of Singapore's most promising young contemporary artist working primarily with photography but often in a multi-disciplinary way by combining images with videos, documents and objects. Working in association with a self-created research institute, The Institute of Critical Zoologists (ICZ), his works have been described as testing the "principles behind the dissemination of knowledge and acceptance of truths". Expedition #9 (Lot 7232) emerges from the Glacier Study Group series, a fictional research group purportedly initiated by ICZ to study the effect of impact of global warming on the Arctic environment. The series has been nominated for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize and Expedition #9 has been exhibited in Singapore and Beirut.
Emerging Singaporean photographer Samantha Thio's Concrete Euphoria: Mongkok, Hong Kong (Lot 7231) is a photo-exploration of the bustling iconic Mongkok. Working with a large format camera, creating multi-exposures within the frame, she highlights some of the most distinctive elements of Asian cities, interpreting them in a multi-dimensional and layered approach seen in the present lot. This technique renders familiar places as fantastical and sublime, so that the city may be seen with new eyes.
Joel Yuen's Anatomical Fantasies of Meat (Web, Organ, Feet) (Lot 7233) comes from one of the emerging artist's earliest body of work that won him recognition on the national level in Singapore when it won the top prize at the 27th UOB Painting of the Year competition. Anatomical Fantasies of Meat combines the visual aesthetics and chiaroscuro effect of the best of traditional Italian and Dutch still-life paintings, but superbly executed in the medium of photography. Bringing across the idea that "[m]en, since antiquity, has taken dominion over animals to serve our needs and demands", the work presents a "fantasy created from the organs and flesh of various animals will serve as a reminder of human ingenuity, creativity and sometimes, bestiality".