FOUND Catalogue Final Lo-Res

14 to 31 December 2013
Exhibition Opening 14 December, Saturday, 7.30pm
MoCA @ LOEWEN PRESENTS
A multi-disciplinary exhibition
featuring 13 emerging Singapore artists.

MoCA @ Loewen Presents
F O U N D
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A Multi-Disciplinary Arts Exhibition
14 to 31 December 2013
Exhibition Opening 14 December, Saturday, 7.30pm
/ fa ų nd /
• having been discovered by chance or unexpectedly •
MoCA @ LOEWEN PRESENTS
A multi-disciplinary exhibition
featuring 13 emerging Singapore artists.

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In 2009, the Museum of Contemporary
Arts, Loewen Road was established
after Linda Gallery was awarded the
project to develop an integrated
museum and art facilities through
an inter-agency Committee chaired
by the National Heritage Board
(NHB) with members from the
Singapore Land Authority (SLA),
Urban Redevelopment Authority
(URA) and Ministry of Information,
Communications and the Arts (MICA).
Since then, the museum has
exhibited top-tier Southeast Asian
contemporary artists like Zhu Wei
and Sui Jian Guo.
Welcome to FOUND, a multi-
disciplinary exhibition of 13 emerging
Singapore contemporary artists.
This exhibition is an introduction to
works by:
Ade Putra - Mixed Media
Amirah Eliyana Insyirah - Painting
Ashley Yeo - Drawing
Denise Jillian Tan - Painting
Felicia Quah - Photography
Cheong Kah Meng - Video Art
Izziyana Suhaimi - Threadwork Installation
Khairullah Rahim - Painting
K.C. Gan - Found Objects Sculpture
Marisse Caine - Photography
Nicholas Lim - Installation
Tay Lai Meng - Painting
Yeo Jian Long - Mixed Media
Loosely based on the different
contexts the word FOUND is found
in, the exhibition aims to highlight the
artists’ individual style, their journey
in discovering this individuality and
vindication to pursue a career as a
visual artist in Singapore.
DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE CURATOR’S MESSAGE
Mark Cheong
Museum Director
Shahirah Jasni
Gail Chin
Curatorial Team
As Southeast Asian art becomes
more global, MoCA@Loewen aims
to bring the best in Southeast Asian
contemporary art to the public. With
one of the best and rapidly changing
art infrastructures in the world,
Singapore has become a sprouting
ground for new and emerging talents
in Visual Arts.
FOUND is our premier in an annual
series of December exhibitions and in
this multi-disciplinary exhibition, we
are proud to feature these 13 artists.
We invite you to come on a
journey with us and hopefully find
a lost memory, or discover a new
understanding of what contemporary
art means and be enlightened on the
journeys our artists take in creating
contemporary works of art.
FOUND was an idea that began when we came
across an article by Jason Tedjasukmana in
DestinAsian. In it he said, “Singapore is moving
quickly to put in place the intellectual and physical
infrastructure that it hopes will elevate it to the
ranks of great art capitals such as New York,
London, and Paris.”
With sophisticated art infrastructures in place,
new policies and international galleries flocking
to showcase in Singapore, we started questioning
where our local art scene was positioned globally,
do we even have a local art scene and how did
contemporary art in Singapore look like now. This
search then inspired us to name this exhibition
FOUND.
It has been quite a journey, working alongside all
13 artists in capturing and bringing to life their
personal reactions and experiences of the word
FOUND. In this exhibition, we found not only
new interpretations and definitions but also a
resurgence of talents and techniques.
FOUND raises issues about what contemporary art
is like in Singapore ‘now’ and how these emerging
artists strive until their own voice is found.
We invite you to define what contemporary art
is for you ‘now’.

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FOUND
1. Ade Putra - Mixed Media
2. Amirah Eliyana Insyirah - Painting
3. Ashley Yeo - Drawing
4. Denise Jillian Tan - Painting
5. Felicia Quah - Photography
6. Cheong Kah Meng - Video Art
7. Izziyana Suhaimi - Threadwork
Installation
8. Khairullah Rahim - Painting
9. K.C. Gan - Found Objects Sculpture
10. Marisse Caine - Photography
11. Nicholas Lim - Installation
12. Tay Lai Meng - Painting
13. Yeo Jian Long - Mixed Media
EXHIBITING ARTISTS

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A Fine Arts graduate from LASALLE
College of the Arts, Ade has started
to carve a name for himself as a mixed
media artist. Ade’s art making is ruled by
his obsessive need to organize clutter.
In “Inroads” series, he uses layers as
a vital component in his art making
process and creates depth that suggests
the intricate nature of the cityscape.
Deliberate use of specific geometric
shapes and the use of processed colours
signify the city as a crucial thriving
space.
INROADS
Obsessive – preoccupied, continually and intrusively.
Compulsive – an irresistible urge and against one’s wish.
Disorder – tiresome days of mess and clutter.
A careful selection of wood from different parts of Singapore, and assembled
into a projection of his chaotic environment.
ADE PUTRA
Mixed Media on Canvas
121 x 183cm
2013

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A graduate from LASALLE College of
the Arts, Amirah majored in Western
painting with a focus on photo-realism
and use portraits and figures as a
subject matter to illustrate her personal
experiences and observations of her
daily surroundings.
Amirah presents the constant search
and chase for ambition in her series
“Intangible”.
AMIRAH ELIYANA INSYIRAH
INTANGIBLE #1
Oil on Canvas
91 x 122cm
2013
Seeking a way out.
A humdrum existence.
Everyday capturing.
Ambition is a 32-panel pentagon football, red glazed
four wheeler and a jet-fuelled flight

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Having graduated with an MA in Fine
Art (with merit) from the prestigious
Chelsea College of Art and Design,
Ashley consistently seek to achieve a
quiet presence through her drawings.
When she first started making art
seriously, Ashley made the deliberate
decision to use drawing as a medium.
In “The world is full without me”
series, she employs different drawing
techniques to speak a single language
that are both projections of her mind
and emotions. A recipient of LASALLE’s
Academic Excellence Award, Ashley
will be doing a residency in Vermont
Studio Centre, USA this November and
in Arctic Circle, International territory
of Svalbard in 2014.
ASHLEY YEO
POST GRIEVING (LEAVES)
Graphite on Paper
60 x 70cm
2013
Found is a feeling and it is invisible.
It is not tangible.
It is emerging but not yet fully formed.
It is both knowing and not knowing.
The nameless destination that the mind seeks
becomes a noise. Found as an unknown, heavy
process, she seeks for the quiet by portraying her
drawings as a veil.

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A graduate in Fine Arts from LASALLE
College of the Arts, Kah Meng is
intrigued by the evolution of old classical
paintings to contemporary painting. In
“Visual Adoption” series, Kah Meng
plays the role of a historical researcher,
questioning if reality is in fact being
imagined.
Through multi media technology,
use the frame as both a physical and
metaphorical form to contain his
artworks.
CHEONG KAH MENG
Rigid, enclosing structure.
Closed off, separates, differentiates.
Framing, a metaphorical representation
of the lost & found duality.
Displaying around and outside the
constrains of a frame.
A frame of a frame of a boundless frame.
VISUAL ADOPTION
1 Minute
Video
91 x 122cm
2013

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Graduating from LASALLE College of
the Arts with a strong interest in the art
of portraiture, Denise puts emphasis
on the postures and expressions of the
human body to bring out the beauty
of an individual.
In her series, “The Borrower” Denise
lets the viewer in on the complexities
of the artist’s mind and surprises us
with the limits of our ability to relate
and understand.
DENISE JILLIAN TAN
THE BORROWER
Oil on Canvas
150 x 120cm
2013
Working incessantly.
Conceal one’s identity.
Achieve with admirable ease.
Use of human features to address the
human mind and its understanding.

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FELICIA QUAH
NOISE Singapore Award Winner 2013, Felicia seeks
to photograph the impressions people leave in
each other’s lives. She will be presenting a single
photograph in “The Condition of Existence”
series that inevitably evokes emotional response
and narrates neutrality from both subject and
the significance and impact of a single picture.
Felicia currently majors in photography at Nanyang
Technological University’s ADM.
Impermanence.
An echo, a reverberation of the aftermath.
A mark of absence and loss.
A forced reminder of mortality and the beauty
of being human.
It is only when we are torn apart that we find out who we really are.
THE CONDITION OF EXISTENCE
Archival Inkjet Print
60 x 160cm
2013

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Since graduating 3 years ago from
Nanyang Technological University’s
ADM, Izziyana has not stopped
producing art. Her works have travelled
globally to Young Art Taipei, yet little is
known about the illusive Izzi. Most of her
threadworks are intimate in proportion
and size, but each time projecting
the simplicity and vital connection of
her roots where sewing is an art form
passed down from grandmother to
mother to daughter.
In this series, “For something to be
found, it first has to be lost” Izzi will
be creating a first in her career as a
contemporary artist – a 3.25 square
meter threadwork installation that
is both performance and sculptural.
IZZIYANA SUHAIMI
The giant topographical map allows
patrons a chance to participate in her
art making by sewing on a piece of
their own. The installation is a work
in progress throughout the exhibition
and will be documented. A fair trade,
the audience will have a hand in the
final turnout as much as the artist will
be able to understand how her art
impacts them.
FOR SOMETHING TO BE FOUND,
FIRST IT HAS TO BE LOST
Thread on Calico
250 x 130cm
2013
Opening:
Diagrammatic representation.
An invitation to glimpse into the artist’s
mindscape.
Closing:
A topographical representation.
Of things lost and found and lost and
found and lost again and found.

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K.C. Gan is a graduate from Goldsmith
University (LASALLE College of the
Arts) and is inspired by the 80s art
movements of neo-expressionism,
graffiti and neo-pop. Neo-expressionism
aims to express life in its truest form
by creating pieces with real-life history
but adding a little bit of their own
myth to it while neo-pop incorporates
iconic symbols or statements as
inspiration and graffiti is about using
the surrounding as their canvas.
In this series “On My Bedroom Wall”,
K.C. use layers of found objects to
represent his personal life in the past
that was filled with adventure, struggle
and experiences. Laced with personal
items such as hand written notes,
K.C. GAN
journal entries and personal gifts from
friends, he glues them together to
create works of his life experiences,
filled with nostalgia.
His only message being, Live, Love &
Adventure.
ON MY BEDROOM WALL
Mixed Media
41 x 39 x 62cm
2013
Magic is finding art in retired objects.
Memories are reliving what was once and
still is important to us.
Nostalgia, a wistful affection for my past.
Beauty is in refusing to forget.

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Khairullah Rahim is a graduate from
LASALLE College of the Arts (Painting
with a First Class Honors). Driven by
his interest in issues regarding spatial
conflict between straightness and
queerness in a domestic frame, he
confront his personal struggles to
constantly avoid from being noticed,
observed or discovered, in fact to
stay in hiding.
His series of familiar ornamental fishes
paintings act as a metaphor to address
the concern of the hidden.
KHAIRULLAH RAHIM
BEATING AROUND THE BUSH
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
Diameter 80cm
2013
Queer, informal, usually of a man
and offensive.
Hide, hidden, hiding.
He said, “Defacto, gays have a lot of space in Singapore. Gay groups hold public
discussions. They publish websites… There are films and plays on gay themes… There
are gay bars and clubs. They exist. We know where they are… We do not harass gays…
and we do not proactively enforce section 377A on them.”

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Marisse is currently a student of
photography at Nanyang of Fine Arts
Academy. Her approach has been to
present ideals behind romanticism
aesthetics of the mind, body and soul,
almost a euphemism of surrendering
to God’s creation and the universe. As
a photographer, she often documents
the abstract life and the process that
is searching for a destination.
For her “Blank” series, Marisse aims to
recreate the ominous presence of love
that never have to be fully described
in order for it to be fully understood.
MARISSE CAINE
BLANK
Print on Awigami Paper
84.9 x 118.9cm (A0)
2013
An anomaly — a blooming flower
out of a crack in the concrete slab.
A tint — marred by a dream.
A hint — déjà vu of what is, what
has been and what is to come.

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Time is an over-riding obsession in
Nicholas’ works. Graduated from
LASALLE College of the Arts as an
installation artist, Nicholas often collect
objects scattered in public spaces
to narrate his concept on time. His
fascination of time making derived from
his father’s profession as a horologist.
As a child, he was intrigued by the
notion of creating time or rather the
idea of creation, this became a driven
goal for Nicholas to explore into the
process of art making.
In “BLK”, Nicholas looks at how over
time, we find ourselves trapped in
a cage made from our own fixed
schedules.
NICHOLAS LIM
BLK
Mixed Media Installation
Variable Dimension
2013
Building a structure of hard wired schedules
and concrete tasks.
To keep out as well as to keep in.
Of sound mind – the element of a person that
enables them to be aware of their world, to
think, to feel…
A time lapse.

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Lai Meng graduated with a Diploma
in Western Painting from Nanyang
Academy of Fine Art and is interested
in recreating memories through
hyperrealism.On his technique, Lai Meng
is mostly self-taught and progresses
towards creating a painting and not
just a copy of a photograph.
In “Lost and Found #2” series, Lai
Meng captures the death of time and
lost memories and through the use of
black and white tones represents the
faded past that we tend to forget in
an ever-evolving society.
TAY LAI MENG
LOST & FOUND #2
Oil on Canvas
152 x 168cm
2012
Rummaged pocket monsters.
Childhood-scapes, a false reality.
Clinging, searching.

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Jian Long graduated with Honors in
Western Painting from the Nanyang
Academy of Fine Arts. During a school
trip to the U.K, Jian Long fell in love
with landscapes and romanticism
and when he came back, was eager
to create the quiet beauty from the
bygone era.
In Singapore where paintings are mostly
cityscapes, Jian Long is one of a kind
with his landscapes of tucked away bits
of nature in Singapore. As if finding
a lost treasure, Long’s artworks on
wood is a rediscovery of technique in
the ways of the Old Masters.
YEO JIAN LONG
VESTIGE : BROWN
Biro and Oil on Wooden Panel
48 x 61cm
2013
Isolating— an act of man’s dominance over beauty.
Excavating — revealing buried remains of nature.
Etchingandengraving—anOldMaster’sinfluence.

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PROGRAMMES
CREDITS SUPPORTING PARTNER
14 Dec Saturday
7.30pm
14 Dec to 31 Dec
Opening in presence of Artists
Contemporary Art Talk by Paul Hume
Still Life / Assemblage activity corner
Group Curatorial Tour
Live Demonstration for Still Life / Assemblage
by K.C. GAN
Live participation in Izziyana Suhaimi’s
“For something to be found, it first has to be lost”
installation
Live participation in Izziyana Suhaimi’s
“For something to be found, it first has to be lost”
installation
Museum Director
Mark Cheong
Curatorial Team
Shahirah Jasni
Gail Chin
Curatorial Assistants
Alsa Chi
Abigail Lee
Artist Guest Mentor
Paul Hume
Glasgow School of Arts,
Singapore
Art Direction | Graphic
Design
Rafiz Raman

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