13 to 28 march 2020

Visual Notes: Actions and Imaginings

Visual Notes: Actions and Imaginings

A prep-room with Jimmy Ong

Ongoing

NUS Museum | Tue to Sat, 10am to 6pm

Free Admission

Sketching out shifts and continuities in modern/contemporary artist Jimmy Ong’s practice, this prep-room project presents a constellation of the artist’s earlier sketches, paintings, photographs, and personal effects. Positioned alongside his completed works such as the large-scale charcoal drawing, Rampogan Macan (2014), these collections of visual memoranda accumulate as an “image bank” constitutive of his artistic process and development. These pieces commingle to posit thematic ‘studies’: open modes of inquiry for situating Ong’s extensive practice within broader discursive formations that trace out points of departure for wider examinations of local/regional historiographies, itinerancies, and artistic production across modern and contemporary temperaments.