Epilogue for Singapore Art Week 2022

Epilogue marks The Artists Village (TAV)’s 30th anniversary as well as the potential final exhibition showcase that reflects on the group’s milestones and roles. The retrospective exhibition brings together a non-linear, cumulative, and empirical documentation of TAV’s 30-year history alongside artworks made by current members that reimagine the choices, perceptions, and pathways which have led us to where TAV is at present.

A staging of parallel timelines and narratives, Epilogue is, at its core, about the connective possibilities between the past and the present, between history and the forging of the new. Memory and forgetting, grief and hope coalesce as the exhibition examines how closure impacts TAV and Singapore’s art community.

Following TAV’s usual mode of co-opting unconventional urban and public spaces for art, Epilogue occupies the “homely” spaces of a chalet as we contemplate what living and working together means, and what evolution might look like. As a potential final curtain call to TAV’s journey, Epilogue is a self-reflexive investigation of TAV that addresses the question of sustainable collectivity in Singapore’s creative landscape.

Group show curated by: Bridget Tay

Curatorial Assistants: Kelly Janine and Sheryl Gwee

Artists: Andy Yang, Bridget Tay, Ezzam Rahman, Ghazi Alqudcy, Gilles Massot, Isabelle Desjeux, Jacquelyn Soo, Jason J S Lee, Jennifer Teo, Justin Lee, Kai Lam, Koh Nguang How, Lim Shengen, Lina Adam, Shin-Young Park, Sophia Natasha Wei

Venue: CSC@Changi (Fairy Point 7)

Dates: 14-28 January 2023