Phunk was invited by 8Q (Singapore Art Museum’s new wing for contemporary art) to participate in their inaugural exhibition 8Q-Rate. In 8Q-Rate, eight artists work with eight museum curators to realise works that reference school, whether as a personal or a generic experience
Curatorial Statement - Joyce Toh
"Central to this work is the notion of memory: the individual, the collective, the shared and the personal, how real memories seem, how unreliable they often turn out to be. In its initial unmarked state, the work’s exterior is a tabula rasa – a blank surface awaiting the imprinting of memories and experiences of younger days even as it anticipates the grown-up future. Yet this curious space – with its blackboard exterior and attendant fake shadow covered with half-erased chalk scribbles words – also call to mind the Freudian wunderblock imagined as a house. It is a three-dimensional embodiment of that mysterious and miraculous device that records every experience as mark and memory, yet appears to offer a clean slate each time it is wiped over. Though some drawings and words are erased, they leave a mark and a fine film of white dust – these transitory memories overlap and contrast with the more permanent recollections. How deep can memories go? :phunk might suggest, as deep as the abyss of a pencil case."
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