Gilles Massot contemplating the vagaries of life in a visual duplicording circa 1956 (from family archives)
MAIN PROJECTS
A selection of the most significant exhibitions produced since 1985
1985
Singapore from B.W. to C.
A series of painted black and white photographs capturing multi-faceted Singapore in the 1980s.
1991
Singapore Boy
A pictorial reflection on Singapore combining paintings, drawings and photo-objects to celebrate a decade of residence.
1991 - 1992
Les Moments de l'Instant
A visual dialogue between camera and sketch book first held in Katmandu and expended as 3D photo objects in France.
1992
Coffee Shop
The mixed-media portrait of a traditional Singaporean coffee shop developed over a few years and presented in-situ.
1997
Les Anges Passent
The life and times of a famous red light street in Chinatown, Singapore, and my first exploration of digital imaging.
1998
Plastic Resurrection
An exhibition of two decades of paintings and drawings produced in parallel to the better-known photographic works.
2000
Hang In There
A look back at fifteen years of travel photography around Asia resulting in the first self-published artist book and theory text.
2002
Moving Pictures,
Disturbed Realities
A body of work of painted photographs on canvas exploring the question of time and space as perceived in moving billboards.
2004 - 2005
Retro Specks Future Pixs
Time and space as found in the peculiar train track linking Singapore to Malaysia and explored with video and 3D installation.
2006 - 2012
Valbelle, Myth or Fiction?
The shaping of the idea of photography in the 18 century and its relation to the concepts underlying the English garden.
2009
Space within a Space
within a Space
Time and space as experienced in the context of a Taoist festival.
2011
The Road to Persepolis
A pictorial travelogue contrasting images of a fantasised Iran and the reality-check experienced on the road to Persepolis.
2012
Matter and Principle
An in-situ installation combining video, photography, shadow projections and sound about a historical Monkey God temple.
2013
Love Hurts
An exhibition about Asian soap operas built around a self-produced Hokkien KTV video and screen captures of hilarious subtitles.
2017
Tints and Dispositions
A re-staging of the 1985 Singapore from BW to C exhibition proposing a new reading of the work and its role in Singapore art scene.
2017
The Probability of Veracity
part 1: the missing daguerreotypes
A painterly investigation of what the lost daguerrotypes of Jules Itier done in 1844-45 around the China Sea might have looked like.
2018
The Probability of Veracity
part 2 : the re-enactments
From pinhole to digital light:
the re-enactment of Itier's 19th century daguerreotypes shot using a contemporary experimental photographic technic.
the re-enactment of Itier's 19th century daguerreotypes shot using a contemporary experimental photographic technic.
2019
You Have to Loose your Way to Find your Self in the Right Place
A retrospective selection of works done since 1977 presented from June 2019 to June 2020 by the Museum of the National University of Singapore.