From 3 October 2014 to 8 February 2015, Singapore Art Museum presents in one space three co-curated exhibitions focusing on the nature of the image as explored in the art of photography and new media. Immediate, accessible, and mutable, photography and the moving image, as key contemporary practices of visual culture, are highly democratic mediums. Since the turn of the last century, unprecedented developments in the way that the image is created, circulated and consumed, have led to new ways of representation and even new image genres.
Organised and co-curated by SAM, the three exhibitions at the museum are in partnership with the Singapore International Photography Festival, Deutsche Bank, and the Yokohama Museum of Art respectively. In Afterimage: Contemporary Photography from Southeast Asia, artists use non-traditional photographic techniques to articulate concerns about the cultural, political and social landscapes of the region. In Time Present: Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, the works of renowned international artists show the multiple possibilities of photography in history over time. Image & Illusion: Video Works from the Yokohama Museum of Art Collection features experimental new media works that expand their subject matter beyond the limits of the medium and representation. As an artistic construction, the image is never self-evident or transparent, but instead always manifests the particularities of history, and the weight of its own time.

A triple bill on the image

Contemporary photography in Southeast Asia

Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection

Video works from the Yokohama Museum of Art