Portable Studio & Material Library
2025

These two works were exhibited at Objectifs Singapore during Singapore Art Week 2025, as part of the group show titled
Hope you are keeping well! curated by Lenette Lua.

Portable Studio (left), Material Library (right), 2025, Installation view at Objectifs

Portable Studio
2025

Portable Studio (2025) is an installative sculpture consisting of multiple actions, objects and assemblages mounted on a shelf. Each object is either a finished assemblage, a work-in-progress or the starting point of a new idea, all levelled on the same plane – reflecting a similar function of an artist studio, where experiments as well as finished work are simultaneously created. The artwork functions as a sculpture, and doubles up as a ‘live’ open studio during the course of the exhibition, activating the portable studio.

The portable studio activations took place on three Saturdays during the exhibition. Viewers observed into the day-to-day life of the artist through her materiality and works-in-progress, had conversation with the artist, spent time reading the artist’s research materials or were involved in the creation of artworks. The first portable studio activation was hosted in collaboration with artist Huijun Lu, who was also part of the group exhibition. Resolved assemblages would then ‘graduate’ from the studio to be exhibited in the gallery. Over time, the gallery saw itself changing, with more and more assemblages exhibited in the space.

Material Library
2025

Exhibited alongside Portable Studio is Material Library (2025) – a long dish drying rack that catalogues materials and types of objects that the artist often uses in her work. Inspired by the way material archives are documented in institutions (often in orderly drawers, neatly categorised and labelled), each item is formally and plainly displayed, lined up along the individual slots of the dish drying rack. The material archive is also accompanied by a numbered list of the items in the archive. The work presents itself as a deconstructed vocabulary of the artist’s practice.