A Solo Exhibition by a French-Vietnamese Artist in Singapore
Opening: Wed 31 Aug, 7 pm
Exhibition: 31 Aug – 24 Sep 2011
Give Art Space
65 Spottiswoode Park Road, Singapore
From Sandrine Llouquet:
Give Art will host French-Vietnamese artist, Sandrine Llouquet’s first solo exhibition in Singapore, opening on 31 August.
Llouquet creates modest, delicate drawings and site-specific installations that juxtapose playfulness with the more visceral and violent. Her work is intensely personal and draws on imagery she is surrounded by: herself, her family, the mass media and the Southeast Asian narrative.
The title of this exhibition comes from the novel, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Stree by Herman Melville (1853). It is a short novella that can be read as an anology for the internal struggle faced by artists who must use their creativity for commercial enterprise to survive.
Llouquet invites you into her world using small ink drawings, watercolours, works on transparent plexiglass and site-specific wall drawings. Endlessly adaptable, Llouquet reflects her nomadic existence as one of the Vietnamese Diaspora.
