Sookoon Ang, 2018, Immortality V, Edition of 3
While you were sleeping…
Presented by The Culture Story and curated by Charmine Toh
20 May—14 October 2023
“While You Were Sleeping…” brought together four Singaporean artists—Sookoon Ang, Darren Soh, Sufian Samsiyar, and Tang Da Wu—spanning different generations and diverse artistic practices. Exhibited together for the first time, their works harnessed the sensory power of art, inviting viewers to move beyond the familiar and step into new realms of perception and imagination.
Symbolism and form played an important role for Tang and Ang, who used them to convey abstract emotions from love to sacrifice. Both artists juxtaposed found and made objects to tell personal stories that invited multiple readings. Soh and Sufian’s work appeared to be representational yet blurred the edges of materiality and vision through surreal landscapes.
The dreamlike layering of personal stories and emotions, signs and objects resisted rigid interpretation. Instead, it created a fluidity of thought and feeling, opening up a space for what Susan Sontag famously called “an erotics of art”—where knowledge emerged not from reason, but from myth and imagination.
Read the essay about the exhibition here.
Artists:
Sookoon Ang, Darren Soh, Sufian Samsiyar and Tang Da Wu