Fragments of an unknown space

Event Dates
16 January to 26 January 2025
Open daily 10am to 6pm
Free Admission
In 2024, DECK invited five artists—Robert Zhao Renhui, Goh Chun Aik, Lewis Choo, Arrvinraj, and Ge Xiaocong—to explore the history of 116 Prinsep Street, the land on which the DECK container art building once stood. Before the building's reconstruction in 2025, the artists were given the opportunity to engage with the site, in alignment with DECK's belief in providing space for artists to imagine and for kindred individuals to gather. The resulting exhibition reflects on the intersection of memory, place, and time, where the unknown is not a void, but a space full of potential waiting to be rediscovered.
Robert Zhao Renhui, both artist and curator of the group exhibition, explained that the works do not aim to reconstruct history or create imagined landscapes. Instead, they focus on the loss of history and the current "vagrants" that inhabit the wasteland—the weeds, crows, and other forms of life that persist on the margins. The artworks engage with the gap in history, addressing the failure to connect with a past that is fragmented and elusive. The absence of official records invites viewers to explore the abandoned land as it exists now, in its fleeting and transitory state, encouraging reflection on how we understand and perceive places marked by absence and change.
Robert Zhao Renhui, both artist and curator of the group exhibition, explained that the works do not aim to reconstruct history or create imagined landscapes. Instead, they focus on the loss of history and the current "vagrants" that inhabit the wasteland—the weeds, crows, and other forms of life that persist on the margins. The artworks engage with the gap in history, addressing the failure to connect with a past that is fragmented and elusive. The absence of official records invites viewers to explore the abandoned land as it exists now, in its fleeting and transitory state, encouraging reflection on how we understand and perceive places marked by absence and change.
Artists
Robert Zhao Renhui, Goh Chun Aik, Lewis Choo, Arrvinraj, Ge Xiaocong
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