To deviate is to depart from an established course. The word ‘deviation' connotes both ‘deviance’ and ‘defiance’ – to reject and/or resist a norm. The norm must, logically, exist before the deviation. But that possibility of challenging, or even simply sidestepping, what we might otherwise assume to be an unassailable truth, declares that there are alternatives. There are different ways of looking, doing, thinking. And so, as pathways open, the power of the norm diminishes.
In Deviations, ten artists re-surface histories that defy accepted narratives, re-write the boundaries of artistic mediums, re-look the disregarded moments in our everyday. These are all artists who chose to displace themselves from their geographical norm – Singapore – in order to re-shape themselves and the ideas, images and objects they put out into the world. Slipping in and out of photography, sculpture, installation, video and painting, the works in this exhibition relish in the creation of new realities, resisting closure.
And so we arrive here, at the unexpected.
Branding for a group exhibition in London
Custom glyphs to articulate our own language
Catalogue with indicative tabs, mimicking a pocket document or folder
Diagonal elements applied in subliminal ways to facilitate content
Diagonal continues weaving through posts, fragmenting the grid
Opening night!