“Beneath Tide, Running Forest”
潮汐有林 —本地海洋生态艺术和科学探索
2018
Curator: Dr. Wang Ruobing
Artists: Chen Sai Hua Kuan, Shirly Koh, Wang Ruobing, Henry Lee
Hosted at the CDL Green Gallery, the group exhibition “Beneath Tide, Running Forest” consists of new bodies of work by 4 local artists Chen Sai Hua Kuan, Henry Lee, Shirly Koh, and Wang Ruobing responding to the anthropogenic issues of the marine ecosystem. The CDL Green Gallery, the first zero energy green gallery in Singapore, is an ideal space for an exhibition addressing environmental concerns. The Gallery is made up of four individual exhibition spaces. Each artist will occupy one space and create their works from one of four aspects: ocean microplastics, marine habitants, marine plastic debris/coral reef, and consumerism.
Conceived as an interdisciplinary practice, the outcomes of the artwork are built on the collaborative relationships with environmental groups, scientists and the general public, and realized in the form of kinetics, sound, video, installation, illustration, drawing and painting. The aim of this exhibition is to engage the public directly and emphasise anthropogenic impacts with social, ethical, and moral concerns in regard to the marine ecosystem, more specifically, the contamination of marine pollution, through contemporary art. Although how effectively art can help restore fragile ecosystems is still uncertain, art, appreciated for its emotive power, certainly can play a meaningful role in re-establishing our lost metaphysical connections with nature.
