Among Plants and Animals
[19.10.18 — 08.01.18]
SPRMRKT at Cluny Court
Trained as a printmaker, artist Weixin Quek Chong chooses to root her ideas in the tactile, tangible materiality of print and image reproduction. Using different printmaking techniques, she approaches representation as something that is felt. With materials such as aluminium and techniques like lithography (Greek for ‘stone printing’) and etching, she plays with different print qualities and their effects in embodying the photographic image. Some works are given a glossy, magazine-like sheen while others show more classical ink and paper aesthetics of handprinted techniques such as etching.
This approach to medium makes apparent the dual nature of images and representation: upon approaching increasing realism, images become all the more artificial or suspicious. Weixin’s stylised presentation of natural elements hint at relationships between surfaces and ideas of superficiality, and recreate an experience of the natural through a tactile and digitally mediated lens.
Weixin Quek Chong
Weixin Quek Chong (b. 1988, Singapore) is a visual artist whose practice explores the materiality, alter and after-lifes of images and relationships between the digital, organic and aesthetic. Effects and methods of translating images across materials are core to her practice.
She received her MFA from the Royal College of Art in London with a specialisation in printmaking, and was a recipient of the NAC Overseas Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate) (2012) and the Tan Ean Kiam Postgraduate Scholarship. Previously an artist-in-residence at the NTU Centre of Contemporary Art in Singapore, her works have been exhibited in Carrara, Istanbul, London, Paris, Santiago, Seoul, Taipei, Vienna and Yogyakarta, at venues including Gajah Gallery, Pearl Lam Gallery, Meme Space Taipei, NTU Center of Contemporary Art Singapore, Saatchi Gallery London, Yeo Workshop Singapore, SHOPHOUSE 5 (Chan-Hampe Gallery) Singapore, Ikkan Art International and Singapore Art Museum, where she is currently exhibiting as a nominee for the President’s Young Talents award.
She lives and works in Singapore, the UK and Spain.
