Wake
Wake is an exhibition which creates a constant and immersive experience throughout The Substation, without the restriction of a singular space. Visitors are invited to explore various parts of The Substation to view artworks created by students from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
Each artwork draws on the quirks and peculiarities of The Substation space while questioning and hypothesising the life and non-existence of the arts space.
The artists viewed The Substation as a living, breathing entity with its own organs and its own history, full of un/fortunate events. The works presented are a form of representation of past stories and their speculation of The Substation’s future.
7 January– 31 January 2021
Tue–Sun (Closed on Mon)
12pm–8pm
The Substation
Artist Bios
Carla Karishma Cantarella is a multidisciplinary artist, who mainly uses photography, video and sound art as her preferred choice of medium. She often comments on mental health issues, like anxiety, in her works. This comes from her own experiences with anxiety and she feels the need to share these experiences in order to allow more people to understand the importance of mental health. Her work titled "Breathe" has been featured in a published book called Oblique. The aim of the artwork was to impart the simple reminder of breathing and guides readers through a breathing exercise to help reduce overwhelming emotions. However, in her more recent works, she aims to explore themes like invisible labour as well as human relationships.
Hoang-Anh Nguyen (b.1991, Vietnam), currently a second-year student at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, specialising in the 4D discipline). Sheis a visual artist who works with photography, video, installation and performance art. Through the deliberate use of her body, technological invention, symbolic colours, objects of everyday life, she sets out to examine the relationship between urbanisation and cultural politics in Asia. Prior to her arrival in Singapore, she had worked as a freelance photographer and had received a mentorship from the American photojournalist, Justin Mott since 2016. Hoang Anh’s artworks have been exhibited at group exhibitions including Crossing 3 Cities, Fine Art WORK-IN-PROGRESS, and featured in Oblique‘s NAFA Art Publication alongside with her fellow classmates, while a number of her photography works were on public display all around the world.
Jassilyn Ng Jia Ling (b. 2001, Singapore) is currently pursuing her Diploma in Fine Art at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), majoring in Diploma in Fine Arts. She works mostly in drawing, painting, photography and sound art to express her identity in context to her background. She has exhibited her works at NAFA's Open House (2020), Fine Arts Atelier Showcase: Creative Faculty (2019), Fine Art WORK-IN PROGRESS Exhibition (2019) at the Fine Art Showcase, NAFA. She was awarded the MOE bursary and CDC/CCC bursary by NAFA in 2019.
Born in 2002, Jana Tay is a Singaporean-born and Malaysian-raised fine art practitioner. She participated in the Work-in-Progress group exhibition (2019) and NAFA Open House 2020 4D Showcase (2020) at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and has contributed to the NAFA x A*STAR SOAD collaboration. She particularly enjoys photographing people in a documentary style and is also interested in commercial photography, often doing paid portraiture shoots.
Kysha Ashreen is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Singapore. Her interests lie in sound and videography, and she continues to further explore these mediums in her performative works. Her works often comment on decolonising Southeast Asian media and hopes to raise awareness about preserving Asian cultures. Currently studying at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Kysha creates moments of empathy in her performances and photographic series. She chooses the most organic and raw moments of human interaction to be displayed and reproduced. By capturing the visceral elements of film and abstracts, she creates concentrated works about the passing of time and anxiety for the future through the catalyst of human error.
Shuchita Kapur (b. 2000, India) is currently pursuing her Diploma in Fine Art at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. She specialises in the 4D discipline within the Fine Art Programme, which encompasses digital photography, performance art, sound art and video art. During the first year of her diploma programme, she worked as a part-time gallery assistant as well as an art teacher to young toddlers, both of which helped her acquire a number of pertinent skills.