Kelley Cheng - City of Embong
Location
Temenggong Artists-In-Residence, 28 Temenggong Road Singapore 098775
Drop by Temenggong Artists-in-Residence from 13 – 27 Nov to experience Kelley Cheng’s (B.Arch, ’96) new art installation “City of Embong: The Prose of Counterinsurgency” – the 56th city imagined as a continuation to Italo Calvino’s 55 cities in his book “Invisible Cities”. The City of Embong is a humorous imagination of the 56th City as an addition to the 55 fictitious cities in the book, each city the name of a woman. Adhering to the rules of the mathematical matrix of the Oulipo literary group which Calvino subscribed to, and keeping the City of Baucis as the central point for the symmetry, an additional sub-chapter has to be added to the 1st and last chapter – hence City of Embong will take these 2 themes to begin and end the matrix of cities using the book’s numerical pattern. In this manner, City of Embong takes on both the status of being City of Memory and a Hidden City at the same time.
City of Embong runs on a non-linear timeline that creates fiction within fiction – combining real lines from “Invisible Cities” amidst made-up lines by the artist – using Marco Polo as the mouthpiece and protagonist of the story, relating tales of Embong to Kublai Khan, vacillating between old memories and future memories, the hidden and non-hidden realities of the city. The imaginary city created is at the intersection of art, architecture and writing.
You are also welcome to join us on 19 Nov, 2 – 5pm, where Kelley will be sharing her work in an intimate setting. Also, check out brilliant works by Richard Hassel and Wayne Peng, at Temenggong Artists-in-Residence now on til the 27 Nov.
More about the exhibition:
𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐠-𝐒𝐆-𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐
𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲: 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 & 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲
https://www.instagram.com/p/CkqXlbMS2tK/
New Works By:
*𝗞𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗴
*𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗛𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹
*𝗪𝗮𝘆𝗻𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴
Venue: Temenggong Artists-In-Residence, 28 Temenggong Road Singapore 098775
Opens to public:
Sun 13 Nov to Sun 27 Nov 2022
12pm-6pm sharp
Closed on Mon 14 Nov & 21 Nov 2022
(No reservation is required)
Photographs by Kelley Cheng