In Sights They Saw: (Re)Visiting Pictorialised Lands, every artwork embodies an attempt to depict a place, either distant or past, once visited by each artist. With works by nine modern artists— inspired by travels in the region— critically juxtaposed against three large-scale contemporary pieces that explore the complexities of visually representing real geographical locations, the exhibition foregrounds the multiplicity of techniques artists across time have utilised in pictorialising places.
Visitors are invited to ruminate on how the act of pictorialisation through the subjective lens of experience, individual subject positions, and artistic styles can reflect, influence or even shape our perceptions of these places as they exist in reality. More than windows into bygone or faraway lands, artworks in Sights They Saw reveal each artist's particular worldview as much as they tell us about the places themselves.
Art Agenda SG, 17 October- 25 November 2023