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Chua Chye Teck employs both photography and sculpture to execute his ideas. He draws inspiration from things in the environment that catch his eye, transforming them from their original state to take on a different context as works of art. Chye Teck’s philosophy is in re-presenting them, offering a fresh way of looking at something we may already know. He recently launched his book Beyond Wilderness, produced as a grant recipient of the National Arts Council’s Creation Fund, and participated in exhibitions Wikicliki : Collecting Habits on an Earth Filled with Smartphones (NGS) and They Do Not Understand Each Other (Tai Kwun Contemporary), with the Singapore Art Museum. Chye Teck has a BA in sculpture from RMIT and his works are collected or commissioned by public institutions and local museums. http://www.chyeteckchua.com/
Marc Gloede is a curator, critic and film scholar. His work focuses on the relationship between images, technology, space, the body, and the dynamics between art, architecture and film. He was senior curator of Art Film, Art Basel's film programme (2008-14) and has curated exhibitions including “STILL/MOVING/STILL – The History of Slide Projection in the Arts” (Knokke/Belgium). More recently, Gloede curated exhibitions including To Draw A Line at NTU ADM Gallery and Suzanne Victor: Of Waters at STPI, Singapore. He has also curated film programmes, such as NTU CCA’s Resonating Structures to accompany the “Siah Armajani: Spaces for the Public Spaces for Democracy” exhibition (2019), and co-curated the A+ Online Festival of Video Art (Kuala Lumpur, 2020). He authored the book Farbige Lichträume/Colored Space of Light (2014), was co-editor of Synästhesie-Effekte (2011), and was recently published in The Impossibility of Mapping [Urban Asia] (2020). Since 2017, he has been Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the MA in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices at NTU ADM.
Hilmi Johandi works primarily with painting and explores interventions with various media to pursue ideas of image-making. He revises images from film, archival footage and photographs into a fragmented montage that hints at the social effects of rapid development. Beyond the reflection of nostalgia in Hilmi’s work is a subtle portrayal of a society that encourages the viewer to reflect existing historical narratives, within the context of Singapore. Hilmi is the recipient of the Young Artist Award 2018, NAC Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate) 2018, LASALLE Scholarship 2017 and the Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award. He has held several solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions, and is one of the five artist finalists to participate in the President’s Young Talents 2018 with the Singapore Art Museum. https://www.otafinearts.com/artists/43-hilmi-johandi/
Wei Leng Tay works across disciplines including photography, video, and installation. She uses formal strategies in installation, in the relationships between image and text and bodily experiences in encounters, to question ingrained modes of perception and representation. She also uses the materiality of the photographic medium to contemplate its relationship to contemporary society. One of the ongoing interests in her practice is displacement as a result of movement and migration, in relation to ideas of agency and belonging. She has collaborated with organisations such as ARTER Space for Art, Istanbul, NUS Museum and NTU CCA Singapore, through group exhibitions and residencies, and her works are in museum collections including those of Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney. She holds an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. www.weilengtay.com