Rimbun Dahan presents
Shadows That Flourish
a solo exhibition by Kim Ng
DATES: Saturday 11 July to Sunday 2 August
[CLOSED on Friday 31 July for Hari Raya Haji]
OPENING HOURS: Weekends 10am – 5pm; Mon to Fri by appointment only (Whatsapp Angela at +6012-210-4229).
ADDRESS: Km. 27 (entrance before Lorong Belimbing), Jalan Kuang 48050 Kuang, Selangor
Admission is FREE.
You are also welcome to walk around our indigenous Southeast Asian garden and view our heritage houses during your visit.
About the Exhibition
Influenced by living habits and the environment that we live in, Kim Ng’s work has a strong connection to social experience, human conduct and memory. He collects an abundance of abandoned objects from the street for their aesthetic values and possibilities, taking pictures of the marks, textures and graffiti left by men and nature. To him, those are gestures of storytelling in their pictorial and physical forms. Those traces also indicate the behaviour left behind by someone or something that held the story of the past.
The artist residency in Rimbun Dahan provided Kim Ng the opportunity to explore and investigate, rather than being tied down to a fixed direction of excessive production. His exploration in various materials and art forms is related to his experience in art-making. A new level of sensitivity towards the materials and forms has been established during his stay in Rimbun Dahan which allowed him to delve into a much deeper aesthetic awareness through further exploration and encounters with various materials and visual propositions.
Shadows That Flourish pulls together Kim Ng’s six months of explorations into a finale and is presented in the Underground Gallery at Rimbun Dahan. Artworks are divided into three types: unprimed canvas buried in the ground or cement, speaking to the transformation of material essence into something that signifies the rural and the urban, and ceramic sculptures and installation works that express nature and social phenomena in a metaphorical way. His colourful mixed media and silkscreen prints on canvas convey a complication of emotional feeling towards the environment. The series of found objects keep track of the authenticity of the materials and their origins, reiterating the existing history of the materials beyond their surface values, and rebuilding their meanings from the past for new interpretations. Much of the thinking process of his art-making was associated with the subject matter, materials and forms, attempting to build a dialogue with the viewers through the visual presentation, and evoking different senses of experience through a variety of materials.
Kim Ng is sensitive to the fact that each different material and form has their own voices. He does not particularly highlight the making process through his works, but from the processes of making, he creates symbols and meanings for further communication and dialogue, contributing to the sensual reading of the work on a personal level when one confronts them.
Read more about the artist and his residency at Rimbun Dahan >>
This exhibition is supported by Dasein Academy of Art.
To request a copy of the electronic catalogue, please email Kim at kng341@gmail.com.