In Personam x 1961 presents Naomi Harwin & Rizibë

22 November 2019 - ongoing

Singapore – 1961 is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by artists Naomi Harwin (UK) and Rizibë (SG). Organised in collaboration with In Personam Custom Clothiers, the exhibition is the first in a series of satellite exhibitions held at the In Personam Custom Clothiers studio at OUE Downtown Gallery in the heart of the Central Business District in Singapore. 

For the first edition, Singaporean artist Rizibë will be showcasing 4 large framed collages from his Psychic Jungle series. As an extension to the Rizibë placemaking universe, this new collection of works employ his signature visual reveries and narrative to explore our longing for the enlivening potency of nature. Using the tropical jungle as a metaphor for nature and the self, Psychic Jungle confronts our rigid perceptions of identity and place in the world. By ruminating on those concepts, these pictorial meditations toss and turn to reveal our true desires.

In addition, Naomi Harwin will be exhibiting a selection of spatial drawings and sculptural installations from her work To be an object is to possess a boundary (2019). In Harwin’s process-led practice she investigates what it is to see and understand an object, a form, a thing. Considering the systems, tools, and processes we use to interpret visual information; consciously or otherwise, Harwin reflects on the role of representation. How does the image/model function and what happens when we extract, deconstruct and unpick the parts and pieces that make up the whole? How do the parts exist when disconnected from their object and reprocessed? Through the use of shape, line, and colour, the works become a descriptive interplay of spatial structure, materiality, and mapping. Continuously shifting between line and form, surface and object. These exchanges, interactions, and re-appropriations consider the interchangeable states of object-hood.