Do you sell tickets for an event, performance or venue?
Find out more about Eventfinda Ticketing.

You missed this – Subscribe & Avoid FOMO!
Selected Works By Gilles Massot

When:

Tue Dec 24 2019, 10:00am–6:00pm
Thu Dec 26 2019, 10:00am–6:00pm
Fri Dec 27 2019, 10:00am–6:00pm
Sat Dec 28 2019, 10:00am–6:00pm
Tue Dec 31 2019, 10:00am–6:00pm

Where: NUS Museum, 50 Kent Ridge Crescent, Kent Ridge, Singapore

Restrictions: All ages

Ticket Information:

  • Admission: Free

Website:

Listed by: cfapress

This exhibition presents the works of Singapore-based French artist, Gilles Massot. It includes a selection of photographs, videos, sketches and writings from the 1980s to the present, and explores the artist’s evolving negotiations with place and the shaping of self-identity through his work as a photo-journalist travelling across Asia, his involvement in a changing contemporary art scene, and his expatriate status. While his art practice is sustained by a theoretical interest in photography’s action of “duplication and recording”, it is in its history that Massot seeks to mediate the questions of subject and its significance.

In the daguerreotypes produced by French trade envoy Jules Itier (1802–1877) during his travels to Singapore, Indochina and China in the 1840s, Massot proposes lines of connection with Itier through a series of “coincidences” which for him are “too many and coherent to be merely accidental”. Massot traces and re-enacts the scenes photographed by Itier, finding parallels between their individual circumstances, the predicaments faced and choices made. This recent artistic project provides the basis for the selections made from the large body of works produced by Massot since his arrival in Singapore in 1981.

Massot’s practice involves cycles of making and remaking, sometimes cannibalising earlier productions as he shifts from one conceptual emphasis to another, providing for re-imaginings and newer expressions. These iterations may involve formal manipulations of the artwork, (re)ordering and incorporating them into a moving image or integrating texts and voice-overs. Collectively, they form ways in which Massot engages with images and their potential meanings. As subjectivities, his efforts complicate the ideological and orientalising features that undergird a sojourn, and in doing so sustain critical expectations so as to eventually find himself “…in the right place”.

About the artist
Gilles Massot is a multidisciplinary artist and academic whose works are based on the idea of “the space between things” with the aim to establish links and decipher the narratives existing between disciplines, people, occurrences and parts of the world. His visual art practice more specifically deals with the theory of photography and its relation to time and space. Massot teaches in the McNally School of Fine Arts, LaSalle College of the Arts. His past exhibitions include The Probability of Veracity Part 1 (2017) and Part 2 (2018); Tints & Dispositions: Gilles Massot (2017); The Space within the Space within the Space (2009); and Retro Specks Future Pixs (2004).
With the support of the Embassy of France in Singapore.