"Breathe Again" by Christina Chua

This is her first solo exhibition

Time: September 2 at 6:30pm - September 22 at 6:00pm

Location: TriSpace, B1-05 Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street, Singapore 187940

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In "Breathe Again", the artist Christina Chua continues to expand the boundaries of art-making with the use of thread to create marks. Her belief that simple stitches can form dots, then lines in continuous form, suggests suffocation, growth and extreme fragmentation. This act and use of such feminine material creates a density that disorientates vision and provokes a feeling of suspension, and enclosure: a holding of breath. Li...ke the growth of plants and flowers, Chua’s works appropriate abstract images to illustrate the transformation of the self.

Opening reception: 2 September (Thursday), 6.30pm.

The exhibition continues from 3 - 22 September 2010. Gallery opens from daily (excluding Mondays and public holidays), 10am - 6pm.



Links:
http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/index.php/news-and-events/events/2010/507-breathe-again

http://www.flickr.com/photos/artituteart/sets/72157624867553066/

http://culturepush.com/2010/09/09/breathe-again-christina-chua/

Born in Singapore in 1988, Christina Chua obtained her degree of Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts in 2010. She is also one of the recipients of Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan Arts and Cutural Award, and Singapore Lee Foundation in 2009. As a student, Christina participated in several exhibitions at the College. She is currently an Art Educator in Singapore. Working with fabric as her main medium, she is especially intrigued by the nostalgia embodied in the boundaries of drawing. She believes stitching and embroidery create new forms of drawing and have the innate ability to express her identity and experiences from her childhood till present.

Christina Chua has been working on Realistic paintings, Abstract paintings and Installations. Her installation works create the sense of Nostalgia (Preservation of Memory). The sense of disorientation in the shrouding presence of smog and fragmenting of one's experience of time. This series of work is an attempt to explore nostalgia as embodied in the boundaries of art making by adopting marks from everyday life.

Mirroring an inner self, her work continues to expand the boundaries of drawing, evolving with stitching and embroidery to create a new kind of drawing that could hold her identity and experiences from her childhood till present so as to achieve a sense of depth, through provoking a uncover traces of the more fugitive aspects of seeing, reflecting and thinking.

Her work manifests a desire to retouch, revise and decipher the image through process and to question how history and experience become marks as a symbol of her life experiences. Her work is a refection of her life and mirrored inner-self.

“Theses experiences, whether good or bad, are important because through them, we learn to communicate and make sense of the world around us.”


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