Life Of Objects presents propositions that reconsider the role of the object in contemporary art-making. By blurring material properties and function, the artists in the exhibition accentuate and undermine perception and reality, opening up new contexts for regarding the relationship between the art and the object.

Chun Kai Qun (Singapore) presents a philosophy of sculpture that uses humour and failure to play off the futility of ambition against the ideal of excellence in art. Torlarp Larpjaroensook’s (Thailand) work engages with repurposed objects as part of a larger narrative that combines personal memory and whimsical imagination. Martin Constable (United Kingdom) deploys images as objects, relying on established film imagery to reconstruct ways in which images are being made and consumed today. The videos of Hiraki Sawa (Japan) interweave object and space to create intimate psychological dimensions that shift with senses of motion and dislocation.

Artists:
Chun Kai Qun, Martin Constable, Hiraki Sawa, Torlarp Larpjaroensook