In an Echo, We Remember

7th - 16th April 2017
School of The Arts Gallery
Singapore

Each artwork in In An Echo We Remember was created by a visual arts student in response to an object owned by a resident of Whampoa, Singapore.

Through a journey of collaboration across generations - during which the residents shared with the artists the stories and sentiments behind their objects - ideas for tangible companions to those objects slowly took shape. What became evident to the artists was that each of the objects they were working with only became more valuable over time, not necessarily in terms of their material worth, but because of the role they played in the residents' life. Over decades, they have become reminders of what moments have passed, and the tangible representations of events experienced.

The collection of artworks shown in this exhibition represent the multitude of ways that an artifact can be related to and interpreted. The end result is a series of works that retell history, retrieve memories, replicate patterns and relate the artist’s own experiences to the residents’ story.

In An Echo We Remember is a collaborative effort between the visual arts students in School of The Arts’ International Baccalaureate Career-Related Programme (IBCP) and Curating Whampoa. As a community and heritage project by the Tsao Foundation, it seeks to collect, curate and present the rich cultural and living heritage of Whampoa through a series of thematic events organized over a two-year period.