State of the Arts: Artist Interviews

Delve into an artist’s practice through the medium of short video interviews.

This series of video interviews allows artists to share a glimpse into their practice, lives and philosophies.
The first three interviews are hosted by Boon Hui Tan, a founding board member of The Institutum.

Alex Prager

Alex Prager (b. 1979, Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) is a photographer and filmmaker who creates elaborately staged scenes that draw inspiration from a wide range of influences and references, including Hollywood cinema, experimental films, popular culture, and street photography. She deliberately casts and stages all of her works, merging past and contemporary sources to create a sense of ambiguity. Her work is in multiple international public and private collections, and she has won numerous awards including an Emmy in 2012.

Khari Turner

Khari Turner‘s work represents the social and political place Black bodies have had in the Black experience, particularly as they relate to bodies of water. Turner builds upon and redefines a spiritual connection to his subjects that he renders in elaborate processes incorporating water he collects from oceans or rivers in paintings, drawings and mixed media works.

Tess Jaray RA

For over the past six decades, Tess Jaray RA (b. 1937) has investigated creating space within abstract painting. Inspired by her travels, architecture and pure form, her paintings are meticulous explorations of colour, shape, line, composition and sensations of distance and closeness.

Maggi Hambling CBE

Maggi Hambling CBE (b.1945) is one of Britain's most prolific and important artists. Over the last 60 years, she has made work in painting and sculpture that is expressive and uncompromising, with a deep concern for humanity. Her subjects range from portraits, to death, loss, war, oblivion, sex and environmental damage.

Kojo Marfo

Kojo Marfo (b. 1980) is a Ghanian artist living and working in London. Hear him in discussion with London-based curator Wells Fray-Smith discuss the inspiration behind his work, his painting practices, and his desire to connect people all over the world through his colourful, fluid portraits.

Rizman Putra

Artist Rizman Putra sits down for a conversion with Tan Boon Hui on his formative years at LaSalle, his introduction to performance art and the community at the S11 coffee shop on Armenian Street.

Shubigi Rao

Singaporean artist and the artistic director of the 2021 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Shubigi Rao speaks to Tan Boon Hui about the trajectory of her practice and her time at Lasalle as a student and a teacher.

Choy Ka Fai

Choy Ka Fai is a Berlin-based Singaporean artist. His multidisciplinary art practice situates itself at the intersection of dance, media art and performance. At the heart of his research is a continuous exploration of the metaphysics of the human body. Through research expeditions, pseudo-scientific experiments and documentary performances, Ka Fai appropriates technologies and narratives to imagine new futures of the human body.

Singapore Art Week 2022 State of the Arts: Artist Interviews

Open to Interpretation 2021