SIPF (Singapore International Photography Exhibition) is a biennial festival which provides a platform for Southeast Asian artists to showcase their works alongside their international peers in various venues across Singapore. In the interim year before the next festival in 2012, NOMAD aims to reach international audiences through its roving exhibitions in various cities. It is a beneficial exchange which create greater exposure for the artists and the audience in the host country.

In each SIPF, the portfolio review session attracts photographers from the region to showcase their best works to a panel of international reviewers. The best selected portfolios of SIPF 2010 are Ang Song Nian, Mintio, Sean Lee Puay Yang, Tristan Cai and Zhao Renhui. NOMAD 01 is proud to have Sabanci University as one of our partners to exhibit the works of these 5 talents. The next NOMAD 02 will take place in Bangkok University Gallery (BUG) in June 2011.

Supported by National Arts Council


What programmes are there installed at the SIPF?
-> 1 month of various programmes (exhibitions, talks, screenings) held in Singapore
-> Photographic work submission / exhibitions (local and international)
-> Workshops (professional / hands-on)
-> Academic discourse / discussions
-> Film screenings
- To obtain more information on SIPF 2010 and the next SIPF (2012), please log on to: http://sipf.sg/web/.


The exhibition for NOMAD 01 will be held as follows:

NOMAD 01 l Istanbul,Turkey
Date: 2 to 20 May 2011
Venue: FASS Art Gallery, Sabanci University


Congratulations to these five Singaporean photographers whose works have been selected for this International exhibition:


Homework
by Sean Lee Puay Yang
Pointing camera to oneself is not new, and in the case of Homework, Sean Lee has taken on an intimate and endearing approach which the act of photographing and posing the family members in front of the camera has resulted in a renewal of relationship within the family, especially between the father and mother.


Concrete Euphoria
by Samantha Tio
This series explores the ever-changing mega cities of Asia. Created entirely within the camera with no digital imaging, the photographer worked with exposures of 4 and 8 within a single frame and intervals varying from seconds to months for each exposure. The camera translates the experience of being in a physical space into a two-dimensional map, evoking wonder and a sense of mounting anxiety in the face of seemingly endless repetition.

Sidewalk Easement
by Ang Song Nian
Sidewalk Easement is an on-going project that highlights the blurring margin between personal and communal spaces in the housing estates of Singapore. The ambiguity encourages a voyeuristic presentation of the individual, which transforms the landscape of the urban housing estate with the presence of personal belongings. This encroachment of public space reveals the hidden “kampong” (villages in Malay) spirit held close to the hearts of the elderly generation in Singapore.


Physical Realities of Death: A memoir of Toivo Laukkanen
by Tristan Cai
This installation deals with the themes of the values of living, the masculinity role and death. Through careful academic research and interviews with mental healthcare workers and patients, a collection of stories and information is being retold through a documentary of the life of character Toivo Laukkanen. Bold and emotional, the creation of such a cinematic spectacle is the artist’s personal catharsis of his doubts and worst fears.


Pulau Pejantan
by Zhao Renhui
A parody on scientific control, this series of work depicts a visual diary of a photographer with a group of researchers on an expedition to a ‘new’ island of Pulau Pejantan. It builds on the romanticism and ecological awareness in the human relationship with animals, and the images oscillate between two alternatives, a sense of profound confusion before the natural world and a yearning for adventurous exoticism.

source: http://sipf.sg/web/