ai. is pleased to present a solo exhibition by artist WeiXin Quek Chong (b.1988, Singapore / living in Madrid) titled deepdreams_sublimed. This is the first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Chong brings together sculpture, video, print as well as installation exploring the theme of tactility through sound and material with underlying references to historical & cultural figures and elements. From an interest in dichotomies between digital \ organic, monumental \ minuscule and other constructed binaries, her artistic concerns have expanded into exploring ways value systems and social interfaces are expressed and evolve, often alluded to and grounded in visual and material forms.
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About the artist
Chong (b.1988, Singapore) currently lives & works in Madrid. She completed her BA at LaSalle College of Arts, Singapore (2010) and her MFA at Royal College of Arts, London (2014). She was awarded the President's Young Talents Award 2018 by Singapore Art Museum (1 of 5 artists aged under 35 years) and the 2019 Singapore National Arts Council Young Artist Award. She was an artist in residency at National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Seoul (2019), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Santiago, Chile (2017). She has exhibited internationally including Gerdasafn Museum, Reyjkavik (2021), Tainan Art Centre, Taiwan (2019), Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore (2019), Singapore Art Museum (2018) and NTU CCA Singapore (2017).
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About the curator
Anca Rujoiu (b. 1984, Bucharest/living in Singapore) is a curator, editor, and PhD candidate at Monash University. As curator for exhibitions and later head of publications (2013-2018), she was part of the founding team of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. In 2019, she was the co-curator of the third edition of the Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, approached as a one-year institutional programme.
