Look at an old photograph and you’d likely remember what happened and what you felt at that exact moment when the picture was captured. The smell of your mom’s cooking. The old rugged tricycle you used to love. Ex-boyfriends.
Sentimental episodes. A memory.
That’s the power of pictures – a moment frozen in a picture. This year, that’s exactly what the Month of Photography Asia 2011 (MOPAsia) wants to showcase and inspire.
Memory is the theme for this leading photography festival, now into its 9th year. Exploring the relationship between memory and photography, the festival showcases a plethora of artists and exhibitions, including ‘Requiem‘, (above) an exhibition dedicated to the memory of photographers who passed away in Vietnam.
Then there’s ‘Superhistory’, an exhibition that will invoke and force us to relook at the way we view the past. The photographer infuses popular pop culture icons into his paintings that will surely make you pay attention.
These are just two interesting exhibitions, out of the many that are on display all over the island.
Take a trip down someone else’s memory or create your own by experiencing the different feelings, thoughts and emotions that the photographs might invoke and trigger in you.
Here’s a list of what’s happening, where & when (they’re all free, so go have your pick!):
- SUPERHISTORY By Agan Harahap
Venue: ION Art Gallery
Dates: 29 June – 8 July 2011
Time: 10am – 10pm Daily
- WALLS BETWEEN PEOPLES
By Alexandra Novosseloff & Frank Neisse
Venue: Alliance Francaise (near Newton MRT)
Dates: 29 June – 27 July 2011
Time: 10am – 10pm Monday to Friday & 11am – 5pm Saturday
- REQUIEM
By the Photographers who died in Indochina and Vietnam
Venue: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Galleries 1 & 2
Dates: 13 July – 21 August 2011
Time: 11am – 7pm daily (closed on Mondays and Public Holidays)
- REQUIEM Public Tours
Venue: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Galleries 1 & 2
Dates: 23 July 2011
Time: 12-2pm (Register to yun-jing@phish-comms.com)
- WHAT LIES BETWEEN
By Objectifs Shooting Home Class of 2010 Reunion Show
Venue: The Arts House
Dates: 3 – 24 August 2011
- MY BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES
Venue: Shots cafe, 8 Ann Siang Hill
Date: 27 June – 27 July
Time: 10 am – 10pm (Sun – Thurs), 10am – 2am (Fri & Sat)
Month of Photography Asia 2011 is organised by Phish Communications and will run from now until 7 August 2011. For more details and updates, check out their website and official facebook page!
