Landang Camp, Pulau Tekong, Singapore / Kelapa Sawit, Johor, Malaysia
2011 | Archival Piezographic Print | 80 x 100 cm (each) | Diptych | Edition of 1 + 1 AP
 

artist statement
Simulating familiar terrain in Singapore's military training area highlights both the insecurity and concerns over the ever prevalent tension between both countries. This intentional effort to create the man-made also studies the extreme ends of usage of an identical natural landscape.

Military intervention is directed to achieve a sense of a particular reality, an appropriation of space and meaning wrapped up within a fantasy scenario. Training sites are in many senses the reality of the imagined, with an immediate tension between the reality of the landscape we observe and the secretive fantasy that is created in that environment.


 
ANG SONG NIAN
artist profile
Song-Nian ANG (b. 1983, Singapore) creates photographs that confront what we usually do not notice, places and spaces half-remembered, half forgotten; influenced and shaped by human presence. By framing particular and individual elements it contains and the connections between them.

Intrigued by the narration of thoughts and ideologies through visuals, Song-Nian has always favored a microscopic approach to concepts and narration, a style which he always employ to open up details in photography.

Currently based in London, Song-Nian’s works questions the relationship of human interventions and invasions on landscapes. His works have been exhibited widely as part of several major art events such as the Singapore International Photography Festival 2010, Singapore Art Exhibition 2009, Singapore Arts Show 2005 and Phillip-Morris Singapore Arts Award 2005.