a print by Geraldine Kang, from her solo show, “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” (2014) at Grey Projects.

"Tell me something I don't know" is Geraldine's personal dialogue with Singapore. Connoting both a resignation towards circumstances and a renewed curiosity, the show is a result of Geraldine's physical explorations of the land articulated into three bodies of photographs.

In Under the guise of surface, a man in white coveralls is seen painting over weather-worn or abandoned public structures. What appears as an effort to maintain these overlooked sites and objects is also a gesture that reactivates and catapults them back into public imagination through the act of staged photography.

Prints Available:

Under the guise of the surface (2014)
Archival giclée prints with black frames
49 x 28cm

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About the Artist

Geraldine Kang (b. 1988) uses photography as a means of introspection and as a tool to negotiate identities within physical and psychological spaces. Combining photography with objects she creates installations that address a range of topics from family, community, and mental illness to site-explorations of the undercurrents and ambivalences of familiar places. Kang holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography and Digital Imaging from Nanyang Technological University and has exhibited her work both locally and internationally with solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and NTU CCA Singapore. She participated to group shows at the ifa Gallery in Berlin and Stuttgart, and ONESITE Art Festival in Taiwan. She was awarded the 2011 Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Still Photography and participated to photography platforms such as Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards, Photographer’s Forum, Px3 and the Asian Women Photographers’ Showcase. She is also the editor of Left to Right, an anthology of image-making in Singapore.