UNDESCRIBED #11
DATE
23 APR 2026 – 30 AUG 2026
VENUE
Guoco Midtown Public Art Wall
128 Beach Rd, Singapore 189773
ADMISSION
Free
Media Release
TBC.
About
Undescribed is an annual platform dedicated to supporting emerging artists based in Singapore who have recently graduated from both local and overseas art institutions. The exhibition showcases works that challenge and redefine contemporary image-making practices, offering fresh perspectives on photography and the moving image in art today. Led by renowned artist Robert Zhao Renhui and DECK Director Gwen Lee, the programme nurtures fresh talent in the field.
In its 11th edition, Undescribed presents works by Cavin Lim, Jay Lim, Lydia Koh, Syed Abdullah and Zhixin Sheng.
Across this year’s Undescribed, photography is not presented as a fixed medium, but as something expanded. Images appear staged, embedded, sculpted, looped, fragmented, or spatially constrained. They move between document, construction, object, and system.
Rather than defining what photography is, the works test how images operate — how they hold memory, structure experience, or shape perception. In doing so, they register a shared attention to the conditions under which images are made and encountered today.
Media Release available here.
In its 11th edition, Undescribed presents works by Cavin Lim, Jay Lim, Lydia Koh, Syed Abdullah and Zhixin Sheng.
Across this year’s Undescribed, photography is not presented as a fixed medium, but as something expanded. Images appear staged, embedded, sculpted, looped, fragmented, or spatially constrained. They move between document, construction, object, and system.
Rather than defining what photography is, the works test how images operate — how they hold memory, structure experience, or shape perception. In doing so, they register a shared attention to the conditions under which images are made and encountered today.
Media Release available here.
Event details
OPENING RECEPTION
23 APR 2026 (Thursday), 7PM – 9PM
↘ Register here
OPENING HOURS
Mon – Sun : 8AM – 10PM
Guoco Midtown Public Art Wall
ARTIST GUIDED TALK
20 JUN 2026 (Saturday), 2PM – 3.30PM
Guoco Midtown Public Art Wall
ARTIST TALK
22 AUG 2026 (Saturday), 3PM – 5PM
Shop–House by DECK
DIRECTIONS
By Train ——
via underpass from Bugis MRT station Exit F (Downtown Line) towards Guoco Midtown
By Car ——
Park at Guoco Midtown and take escalator in front of office entrance towards underpass leading to MRT
Browse Works
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Memory Of My Mind
Cavin Lim
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Ahqua
Jay Lim
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Beneath My Skin
Lydia Koh
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Operational Hour
Syed Abdullah
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Letters and Corridors
Zhixin Sheng
Featuring
Cavin Lim
Artist
Cavin Lim (b. 2001) is a Singaporean lens-based media artist and graduate of LASALLE College of the Arts and holds a degree in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths. He works with photography and video as reflective tools. Through personal and the everyday, he explores memory and identity and invites us to consider the fragile, non-linear ways we make sense of the world. Influenced by familial themes, film, and sensory memory, driven by a desire to give form to feelings that are often difficult to name.
Jay Lim
Artist
Jay Lim (b. 2000) is a Singaporean artist photography, arts installation. Intersection of photography queer theory, practice documents lives beyond societal norms research-led and practice-based approaches. Using inscrutable looking, he explores hidden and speculative narratives in images. work positions photography as a democratic communication beyond spoken language, challenging assumptions about marginalised communities. In 2025, nominated for Photo London x Hahnemühle Student Award and exhibited internationally. Lim holds First-Class Honours from London College of Communication and runs Quiet Press, a self-publishing platform for quiet photographic storytelling.
Lydia Koh
Artist
Lydia, known as LAYDIO, is a Singapore-based visual art practitioner whose lens-based works explore the relationship between space, presence, and perception. Her practice challenges conventional ways of seeing, offering alternative perspectives that expand our understanding of reality. Through her lens, Lydia transforms moments into evocative portals of memory and emotion, blurring the boundaries between past and present while infusing her work with a vivid sense of life.
Syed Abdullah
Artist
Syed Abdullah is a multidisciplinary visual storyteller from Singapore, working across photography and moving images. His practice explores emotional states, identity, and the subtle tensions between inner life and external systems.
Often drawing from fashion as both language and structure, his work treats style not as surface, but as narrative — a way of framing character, power, and vulnerability. His images balance control and intimacy, precision and instability, inviting viewers into moments that feel simultaneously familiar and unsettled.
Rooted in lived experience, his work resists easy categorisation. It favours quiet intensity over spectacle, using mood, rhythm, and observation to spark reflection and dialogue across commercial and cultural contexts.
Often drawing from fashion as both language and structure, his work treats style not as surface, but as narrative — a way of framing character, power, and vulnerability. His images balance control and intimacy, precision and instability, inviting viewers into moments that feel simultaneously familiar and unsettled.
Rooted in lived experience, his work resists easy categorisation. It favours quiet intensity over spectacle, using mood, rhythm, and observation to spark reflection and dialogue across commercial and cultural contexts.
Zhixin Sheng
Artist
Zhixin (b. 2001) works across image-making, writing, bookmaking, installation, and interior design. Her ongoing practice engages with affect and relationality, the visualization of memory, and the negotiation of space and interiority through perception and narrative form. She is particularly interested in the boundaries between image and text, and in the narrative and evocative possibilities that emerge from the gaps between mediums and forms. She graduated from Yale-NUS College in 2025, where she majored in Arts & Humanities, with a focus on art practice and creative writing.
