Suzann Victor: Constellations
15th January, 2025 – 2nd March, 2025
STPI Creative Workshop and Gallery
41 Robertson Quay
Singapore 238236
STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery presents Constellations, the second residency exhibition by leading Singaporean artist Suzann Victor. On show from 15 January to 2 March 2025, the exhibition comprises over 20 new artworks from her latest collaboration with the Creative Workshop. It invites viewers to explore the nuanced possibilities of printmaking through light and shadow, and to create their own secondary light-prints on the gallery walls.
Victor’s latest poetic and tactile series offers a reappraisal of our embodied encounters with the phenomena of light, space, and materiality—where art is seen as much as it is discovered, sensed, and felt. The works return us to physical experience and spatial experimentation—an antidote to an age dominated by digitally mediated experiences.
Constellations revels in what is ordinarily concealed. In this spectacle of penumbrae and luminosity, one is compelled to question how something so transparent like discs and marks, can create transient prints of light shaped by shadows. It opens up a field of participation for discovery beyond surfaces, inviting viewers to not just look, but sense, the many worlds that exist around us, and within us
Suzann Victor
Constellations Highlights include:
- The Image Stammers I and II, Afterglow, and Obsidian Moon: Victor manipulates transparent acrylic discs to produce intentional effects of “printing” light and shadow on the wall, creating immediate visual impact.
- Works such as Fractally Yours and Fractally Fuchsia: These feature Tension-Printing on acrylic discs, recalling natural patterns seen in lightning, roots, and arterial networks of living organisms. These works enhance awareness of worlds hiding in plain sight.
From her earlier performance works to immersive, monumental installations, Victor’s practice explores the contours of human sensorial experience, perception, and phenomena. Mining materials from the body while engaging with light, water, and physics, Victor draws attention to the viewer’s body as an investigative tool for apprehending the world at large.
Over a career spanning three decades, Victor’s works have been commissioned for major platforms, including:
- The Singapore Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale, where she was the first female artist to represent Singapore
- The 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
- The 6th Gwangju Biennale
x 200 x 24 cm. © Suzann Victor / STPI. Photo courtesy of the artist and STPI – Creative
Workshop & Gallery, Singapore.
Earlier in her career, Victor co-founded the pioneering feminist, artist-led collective 5th Passage, whose critical and interdisciplinary approach significantly impacted Singapore’s art landscape.
For over two decades, the mastery and expertise of STPI’s Creative Workshop has empowered leading contemporary artists to develop new dimensions in their practice through print and paper, seeking innovation through unorthodox approaches to traditional methods. Renowned artists such as Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lee Bul, and Natee Utarit, among others, have found inspiration in the limitless possibilities of artistic experimentation during their STPI residencies.
Suzann Victor: Constellations opens on the 15th of January, 2025 until the 2nd of March, 2025 at STPI Creative Workshop and Gallery, Singapore
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