A Home Away From Home: Curated by John Z.W. Tung
DATE
7 NOV to 14 DEC 2025
VENUE
Shop–House by DECK
4 & 6 Lorong 24 Geylang, Singapore 698616
ADMISSION
Free
By Appointment Only | Email clara@deck.sg for Registration
About
To celebrate this new chapter, DECK presents its inaugural exhibition, “A Home Away From Home”, curated by John Tung with 31 artworks donated by 25 artists. This exhibition transforms the shophouse setting into a welcoming cultural home, echoing the warmth and intimacy of displaying art within a lived-in space. The presentation invites visitors to experience photography as a familiar companion in everyday spaces, with all proceeds supporting DECK’s permanent building fund.
Featuring
John Z.W. Tung
Curator
As an independent curator, his recent roles include Festival Curator for the Singapore International Photography Festival (2020, 2022), Associate Curator for For the House; Against the House, and curator of the landmark exhibition on 5th Passage. He has produced major projects such as The Forest Institute and The Gathering: 千岁宫. To date, he has worked closely with artists to realise over 50 new commissions. He holds degrees from Goldsmiths (LASALLE) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Kim Sunik
Artist
Kim Sunik is a Seoul-based photographer who navigates the tension between documentation and concept, control and instinct.
Rather than focusing on what images represent, his work emerges from a particular way of seeing life, a visual practice that becomes both outcome and ongoing process toward deeper understanding.
He engages directly with symbolic objects from everyday life, then recontextualizes them through publications and exhibitions.
Chow and Lin
Artist
Chow and Lin are an artist duo whose practice fuses statistical, mathematical, and research-based methods to examine global issues. Their work has been exhibited at MoMA, Arles Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Art Basel Hong Kong, and the Lahore Biennale, and is held in the permanent collections of MoMA, CAFA Museum, and Art Vontobel. Authors of *The Poverty Line* (Actes Sud/Lars Müller, 2021), they are recipients of the Berlin Falling Walls Breakthrough Award (2020), IMPART Art Prize (2022), and Global TED Fellowship (2024). Engaging globally, they have spoken at the World Economic Forum, United Nations, and leading universities worldwide.
Manit Sriwanichpoom
Artist
Manit Sriwanichpoom, a pioneering Thai contemporary photographer and visual art graduate, has exhibited internationally at leading institutions including the Centre Pompidou (Paris), Saatchi Gallery (London), and Venice Biennale. His acclaimed series such as “Shocking Pink Story” and “Bangkok in Pink” explore Thailand’s social and political realities. His works are held in major collections worldwide, including the M+ Museum (Hong Kong), National Gallery Singapore, and Queensland Art Gallery. Recognized by Phaidon Press’ book “BLINK” as a top emerging photographer, Manit received Japan’s Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Prize (2007) and France’s Chevalier des Arts et Lettres (2014). He also directs Kathmandu Photo Gallery and Foundation Cinema Oasis.
John Clang
Artist
John Clang (b. 1973, Singapore) is a visual artist whose practice often straddles the dual realities of globalcities, unfettered by the confines of time and geography. A double-sight navigator of a world in constant flux, he absorbs seemingly mundane and banal external stimuli and conveys his internal observations and ruminations through the mediums of photography, film and metaphysical performance. Clang’s performance series, Reading by an Artist, was recently included in Sharjah Biennial 16 (2025).
AikBeng Chia
Aik Beng Chia’s photography captures moments rich in subtlety and textures. Not merely visuals, his photography is one that you feel, deep in your heart. The longer a viewer spends with these images, the more layers unfold. The more story it tells. Aik Beng has documented overlooked scenes in everyday Singapore life and wherever he travels, a commentary of often faded scenes that still hold rich tapestries of emotions, through his eyes.
ABC, as his friends/fans call him, is the author of Tonight the Streets are Ours (2013), a monograph on Singapore’s Little India district after dusk, SingKarPor (2015) and a glut of highly acclaimed self published zines (2010 – ongoing).
He has also been a collaborator with brands like Apple, Leica, Fujifilm, Singapore Tourism Board and The Guardian. His works have been exhibited and published internationally to great success.
Woong Soak Teng
Artist
Woong Soak Teng (b. 1994, Singapore) practices in the intersections of art making, producing, and project managing. Her work examines human tendencies to control natural phenomena and nature at large. Woong has participated in festivals and exhibitions internationally in Auckland, Copenhagen, Daegu, Dali, Thessaloniki, Tokyo, Shanghai and Singapore.
Her accolades include the Steidl Book Award Asia, Objectifs Documentary Award 2021, Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Photography 2018 and Singapore Young Photographer Award 2018.
MM Yu
Artist
MM Yu (b. 1978, Manila, Philippines) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice bridges photography and painting to explore urban life, composition, and color. Since earning her BFA in Painting from the University of the Philippines in 2001, she has documented the evolving textures of city life through images of people, infrastructure, and everyday objects. A recipient of the CCP Thirteen Artists Award (2009) and Ateneo Art Awards (2007), Yu has been a finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize (2010) and a Goethe-Institut Climate Change grantee (2014). She has completed residencies in Manila, Bandung, Paris, and Singapore.
Liu Bolin
Artist
Liu Bolin is a Chinese contemporary artist famous for his “Hiding in the City” series, where he uses body paint to camouflage himself into various backdrops. Often called “The Invisible Man,” his work is a form of performance art and a silent protest, exploring themes of identity, social marginalization, and the impact of human actions on the environment.
Daido Moriyama
Artist
Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1938, Daidō Moriyama is one of the most important Japanese photographers of the postwar-era. He embarked on his photography career in 1959 as a student of Takeji Iwamiya. However, his study under Iwamiya was brief and in 1961 he became the apprentice of one of the masters of Japanese photography, Eikoh Hosoe. Moriyama soon struck out on his own, creating a photographic style that disregarded the technical conventions of the day in favour of grainy, out-of-focus images taken with a small, hand-held camera.
Described by Moriyama as “fossils of light and memory,” his photographs avoided making the political statements that were so characteristic of the period, instead seeking to preserve instants of time in memory. In 1968, Moriyama worked for Provoke magazine and published his first book, Nippon Gekijo Shashin-cho (Japan: A Photo Theatre). He ran a photographic school throughout the 1970s and established the Workshop Photography School in conjunction with other photographers. Moriyama has won many awards and has had his work exhibited worldwide.
Cynthia Delaney Suwito
Cynthia Delaney Suwito (b. 1993, Jakarta, Indonesia; lives and works in Singapore and Jakarta) is an artist who bends everyday norms to understand and relook at our surroundings. Taking many forms, including sculpture, installation, and digital media, her work is noted for its quiet humour and laborious impracticality. Knitting Noodle (2016), a video showing the artist knitting instant noodles, was featured on BBC Asia in 2017. Other subjects explored include the misfortunes of plastic bags, the misuse of clothes pegs, and the perpetual turning of toilet paper rolls.
She has staged her solo exhibition, while we wait, at The Substation (Singapore, 2020). Notable group exhibitions are Sama Sama (Whitestone Gallery, Singapore, 2025), Singapore International Photography Festival (Peace Centre, Singapore, 2022), Superfluidity: The Parallel Universes Daily Mimicry (FreeS Art Space, Taipei, 2022), Suksesi (ISA Art and Design, Jakarta, 2021) and Bandung Contemporary Art Award Assemblage (Lawangwangi, Bandung, 2019). She was amongst the 2017 FORBES 30 under 30 Asia in the Arts. She has a BA Fine Arts (with First Class Honours) from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.
Kurt Tong
Artist
Kurt, born in Hong Kong in 1977, is an award-winning photographer whose work explores identity, memory, and Chinese heritage. A graduate of the London College of Communication (MA Documentary Photography, 2006), his acclaimed projects include The Queen, The Chairman and I and Combing
for Ice and Jade, both exhibited globally and recognized among the best photobooks of 2019. Winner of the 2022 Prix Elysée for Dear Franklin, he continues to merge history and emotion through visual storytelling. His recent works, Krampus and Cult of Illusion, expand his exploration of myth and belief. He is represented by The Photographer’s Gallery, London, and Up Gallery, Taiwan.
Lim Sokchanlina
Artist
Lina is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, video, installation, and performance to explore Cambodia’s social, political, and environmental transformations within global contexts. A founding member of the artist collective Stiev Selapak (2007–2024) and Sa Sa Art Projects (2010–2024), he has been instrumental in shaping Cambodia’s contemporary art scene through education, community engagement, and innovative programming.
His works critically examine power, history, and everyday life through research-based practices. Lina’s exhibitions include Documenta 15 (Germany), Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival (China), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), and NCA Nichido Contemporary Gallery (Tokyo), among others.
Charmaine Poh
Artist
Charmaine Poh (b. 1990) is an artist from Singapore working across media, moving image, and performance to peel apart, interrogate, and hold ideas of agency, repair, and the body across worlds. She aligns herself with strategies of visibility, opacity, deviance, and futurity. She has exhibited at the Singapore Art Museum, the Seoul Museum of Art, Blindspot Gallery, REDCAT LA, Huis Marseille, and the 60th Venice Biennale – Foreigners Everywhere, among others.
In 2019, she was one of Forbes Asia’s 30 under 30 in the arts. Her work has been collected by Vega Foundation, Sunpride Foundation, and KADIST. She was recently named Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year for 2025.
Based between Berlin and Singapore, she is a co-founder of the magazine Jom and a member of Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR).
Minstrel Kuik
Artist
Minstrel Kuik (b. 1976, Malaysia) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, painting, drawing, textile, poetry, and installation. Educated in Taiwan and France, she explores the politics of place, gender, and identity through a feminist lens, engaging Écriture féminine as a critical framework. Kuik has exhibited internationally at institutions such as the National Gallery Singapore, Musée du quai Branly (Paris), and FotoFest (Houston). Her accolades include the UOB Painting of the Year Award (2014), Higashikawa International Photographer Award (2013), and a Fukuoka Asian Art Museum residency (2015). Her works are held in major public collections across Asia and beyond.
Geraldine Kang
Artist
Geraldine Kang’s recent work focuses on documentarian methods to discuss the living conditions of migrant labour in Singapore. She enjoys qualitative processes and uses the act of photography as a participatory and introspective tool, wishing for her images to stir dialogue about the complexities between family life, citizenry, and labour.
Her artistic strategies employ text along with installation methods and thinking about the architectural potentials of an exhibition site. Geraldine’s other interests include thinking about mental health, land-space issues in Singapore, and reflecting on socially engaged practices. Geraldine has exhibited in Singapore, Europe and Asia. Her most notable exhibitions include group exhibitions at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, the Taipei Artists’ Village, as well as the ifa-Galerie in Berlin and Stuttgart. She has staged solo presentations at the Institution of Contemporary Art Singapore, Grey Projects and the Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art. She was the 2011 winner of the Kwek Leng Joo Excellence in Still Photography prize, and has been featured at the Women in Film & Photography 2023 showcase, the Singapore International Photography Festival 2022, the Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards, Photographer’s Forum, Px3 and the Asian Women Photographers’ Showcase. Geraldine was a recipient of the National Arts Council Arts Scholarship for Graduate Studies in 2017 and attained her MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, The New School. Geraldine is currently a full-time educator at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore.
Ken Cheong
Artist
Ken Cheong (b. 1968) is a Singaporean professional and fine art photographer, curator and consultant in the art, culture and heritage fields. Occupying a specialist niche in these sectors, Cheong brings his experience in different contexts to hone his practice and has won accolades for his fine art work including the Discernment Award for ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu in 2014.
Eiffel Chong
Artist
Eiffel Chong graduated with an MA in International Contemporary Art and Design Practice from the University of East London and a BA (Hons) in Photography from London College of Communication. Besides his production of photographic work, Chong is highly engaged with the Malaysian photographic community; taking on the role of mentor for the Nikon Shooting Stars programme and Exposure+ Workshop. In addition, he has been appointed to the panel of judges for various photography
competitions such as the Kuala Lumpur Photography Awards and Annual Nikon Photo Awards, Malaysia.
Eiffel Chong’s work considers abstract concepts of life and death through the banal details, silent landscapes and curious obsessions he observes from daily life. He is interested in how the photographic medium can translate a particular time and space, memories and thoughts into something permanent. He personally thinks that the images say more with less, and makes one just want to stare and think about it.
Lee Jinkyoung
Artist
“My days are mostly filled with activities of domestic life at home. While I am painting, I think about how I become true to myself and about how I become truly free from the fear of limitedness and entrapment by time, space of here and now. This is so that I might be able to discover what this longing for adventure and freedom is all about and what dream God might be putting in the deepest part of my heart.
Through painting, I hope to find out why particular things or objects out of the familiar, ordinary things speak to my heart in mysterious ways. I realize that those mundane, overlooked things around me might be able to say something about me, my life and my inner heart which have been hidden to me for so long.
Through painting, I try to speak order in chaos, balance and harmony in the fragmented, wholeness in the brokenness.”
Song Ming Ang
Artist
Song Ming Ang is an artist and musician whose practice explores the intersections between the everyday and the avant-garde, with a particular interest in conceptual art and experimental music. Approaching creativity from the perspective of an amateur, his work reflects a belief in the dedication and knowledge found in non-professional practices. His interdisciplinary projects span diverse media and tonalities, resisting easy categorisation while forming a personal curriculum of learning and making.
Ang holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature from the National University of Singapore and an MA (Distinction) in Aural & Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London. He has exhibited at The High Line (New York), Camden Arts Centre (London), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), 14th Istanbul Biennale, 4th Aichi Triennale, 3rd Singapore Biennale, 1st Asia Society Triennale, and represented Singapore at the 58th Venice Biennale.
His current research focuses on cybernetics within modular synthesis and self-reflexivity within artificial intelligence.
Sean Lee Puay Yang
Artist
Sean Lee was born in 1985 and grew up in Singapore. His first body of work was Shauna, made between 2007 and 2009. This work was nominated for the Prix Découverte on the 40th anniversary of Arles Photography Festival. Since then, Sean has gone on to make other stories.
His second work – “Two People”, received the 2011 ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu award. Sean’s photographs have been exhibited in a number of institutions and festivals. Most notably, the Saatchi Gallery in London and the Chobi Mela Photo Festival in Bangladesh.
Much of Sean’s work can be found in the collection of the Singapore Art Museum. Sean’s first book, “Shauna”, was released in September 2014. It was collected by the MoMA Library.
Pierfrancesco Celada
Artist
Pierfrancesco Celada (1979); after completing a PhD in Biomechanics, Pierfrancesco is now concentrating his attention on a series of personal long-term photographic projects documenting life in modern cities. He won the Photo Folio Review, Les Rencontres d’Arles (2021), the Guernsey
Photography Festival International Competition (2020), PHmuseum Photography Grant (runner-up, 2020), Happiness Onthemove Award (2017), EPEA’03 (2015), the Photolux Leica Award (2014) and the Ideastap
and Magnum Photos Photographic Award (2010). His work has been published and exhibited internationally, including Les Rencontres d’Arles, Fotografia Europea, Cortona ONTHEMOVE, Nobel Peace Center, Gulbenkian Foundation, Wyng Foundation and Deichtorhallen.
Sebastian Mary Tay
Artist
Sebastian Mary Tay is an interdisciplinary artist and educator with a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History (Ragusa, IT) and a Master of Research (Glasgow, UK). His works have been featured in international exhibitions like White Clouds (SG), Superhuman Expedition (UK), Pixel Paradise (SG), 8th Singapore International Photography Festival (SG), Glasgow Open House Arts Festival (UK), Frame & Frequency (USA), NIDA International Photography Symposium (LT), Oscillations (SG).
His works have also been featured in multiple exhibitions at The Royal Scottish Academy. Sebastian was further awarded The Royal Scottish Academy Latimer Award, the Royal Glasgow Institute Prize and the Ngee Ann Young Promising Artist Award; he is currently an adjunct lecturer at University of the Arts Singapore, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, and Nanyang Technological University. His teaching areas include art history, critical theory, and photographic practices.
Sebastian’s research explores existential dimensions of photography `within contemporary AI-driven visual culture. He is based between Singapore and Korea.
Ang Song Nian
Artist
ANG Song Nian (b. 1983, Singapore) works with materials and traces of human behaviours made visible within landscapes through photographic documentations and installation.
Robert Zhao Renhui
Artist
Robert Zhao Renhui (b. 1983, Singapore) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the complex and co-mingled relationships between nature and culture. Working in installation, photography, video and sculpture, Zhao is interested in the multifarious beings and objects that constitute the living world, and whose experiences and knowledge enrich our collective existence.
Zhao held solo exhibitions The Forest Institute (2022) at Gillman Barracks, Singapore and Monuments in the Forest at ShanghART Gallery (2023) in Shanghai. His latest work is a performance installation titled Albizia (2023), commissioned by the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay. He has also been featured in 10th Busan Biennale (2020), 6th Singapore Biennale (2019), 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2018), 11th Taipei Biennale (2018), 17th Jakarta Biennale (2017), and 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016). Zhao represented Singapore in the 60th Venice Biennale. (2024)
He received the prestigious National Arts Council Young Artist Award (2010), Singapore’s highest award for young arts practitioners aged 35 and below. He was also a finalist of the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award (2017).
Marvin Tang
Artist
Marvin Tang (b.1989) uses images as a tool of investigation. His research questions the linearity of historical narratives and the notion of collective identities. His works stem from the effects of policy-making to shifting social structures. He is particularly interested in applying this research to Singapore, attempting to investigate its historical account and relationship to her expanded narratives across the globe. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of Art, Design, and Media (NTU) and Master’s in Photography at the University of the Arts London.
Marvin received the Photoworks Prize at the London College of Communication in 2018. He is also the recipient of the CAPA Asia Portfolio Review Prize at the 5th Singapore International Photography Festival in 2016 and a recipient of the Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Photography in 2015. His works havebeen shown in Alliance Française de Singapour,
DECK (Singapore), Mizuma Gallery (Singapore), Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale (Greece), Noorderlicht International Photofestival (Netherlands), Odesa Photo Days (Ukraine), and Dali International Photography Exhibition (China).
