Lecturer : Diploma in Visual Communication
Specialisation: Photography, Imaging Arts, Exhibition
Area of Interest: Horology

- sixth solo exhibition by fine art photographer, Chow Chee Yong.

is the product of a four-year long awaited inauguration by Chow. He was known for being the first of only three Singaporeans whose prints were acquired by the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (KMOPA). Chow's works were further showcased by KMOPA alongside Nobuyashi Araki, Ansel Adams and Helmut Newton in his most recent group exhibition.

Drawing influences from the surrealists, most notably Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and Op Artist MC Esher, Chow questions possibilities of subverting expectations of the experiences. These processes of questioning reality forms the catalyst of visual ideas that propels Chow to sketch, and thus beginning the recording and compilation of these photographic images necessary to make the non-existential alive. The collective of images were finally juxtaposed and fixed onto the final photographic print in the darkroom.

In Chow's work, we experience surrealistic images that defy our notions of conventional perceptions. A swimmer freestyles through a ripped fence, another swimmer surfaces to inhale air in a strip of water in building corridor; windows emerge in the midst of field; building columns taper off into buttress roots. These juxtaposed images fragmented of times and spaces, retain truly absolute to the artist's imagination.

Chow will be launching his first publication, alongside the exhibition opening exhibition opening reception. It showcases development in his art practice, images now publicly shown, and illustrations of the process to realizing his imaginations.