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from my series “City of Dreams”
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I’m thrilled to announce my new book “Singapore”, featuring 83 photographs from 2007 - 2017.
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moma:
Looking back
“If I could tell a 15‑year‑old self something, it’d be to try not to care about your appearance. Besides that, I think to always hold on to that sense of childhood wonder, that excitement. I always try to make sure I remember to put that back into my work, to remember that from doing it because I love it, and it’s not just a job, and doing it for play. As an artist, I think it’s incredibly important to hold on to the fearlessness that you have as a child. It helps you take risks in your art.”
In honor of International Women’s Day this week, we are posting quotes from our latest Creative New York interview with Petra Collins, highlighting important issues relating to body image, openness and collaboration, and health care access as an artist. Read the entire interview at nyc.moma.org.
Join us on 3/18 for PopRally’s Petra Collins: In Search of Us, an evening of performance, music, and digital art conceived and developed by Collins and artist Madelyne Beckles. Tickets and more info at mo.ma/poprallyxpetra
[Portrait of Petra Collins by Nguan]
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My solo exhibition “How Loneliness Goes” opens at FOST Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore on 28 Feb 2017. It runs until 12 Apr. Full details here.
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Having produced work in Japan, the United States, and his hometown of Singapore, photographer Nguan’s pastel-soaked portraits and urban landscapes often depict momentary stillness in otherwise restless cities. Shooting on medium-format film, Nguan describes his work as a “compulsion”, having spent more than a decade capturing candid photos of passers-by and observing the city and its occupants. PNguan has produced work in Los Angeles (’City of Dreams’, 2004–11), Tokyo (’Shibuya’, 2008–10), Coney Island (2008), as well as photo-essays in New York City and Beijing. In addition, Nguan has published two photobooks, Shibuya (2010) and How Loneliness Goes (Math Paper Press, 2013). Last month, Nguan’s photos reached an even wider audience when he took over the New Yorker’s Instagram account for one week.
Born and raised in Singapore, Nguan was first exposed to the US while studying Film and Video Production at Northwestern University in Illinois. During this time, Nguan bought a small camera to photograph people and places to inspire ideas for future screenplays, but these “isolated fragments of time” quickly became Nguan’s solitary focus. As Nguan explains in How Loneliness Goes: “[my photographs] affirm the tenuous margins that divide maturity or worldliness from a sort of brokenness, and melancholy from a kind of peace”.
Nguan remains distinctly private, preferring not to have his photographs become diluted by any element of celebrity that his large following might encourage. Having exhibited around the world, and with photographs as part of Singapore Art Museum’s permanent collection, Nguan is currently working towards publishing a photobook based on his ‘Singapore’ series.All Images by @nguanblr – head to Nguan’s website for see more.
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