5th Jan 2006 OPENING: STAND BEHIND THE YELLOW LINE Exhibition

STAND BEHIND THE YELLOW LINE

STAND BEHIND THE YELLOW LINE is an installation-based exhibition initiated by a group of young artists to push forward challenging ideas on a more serious and engaging note. The five artists decide to find new meanings to this simple transitional instruction. Experienced by millions of commuters traveling by the Mass Rapid Transit day after day, the statement becomes almost an inevitable audio disturbance that would plague them, resulting in a kind of banality often reflected in their mundane lives.

STAND BEHIND THE YELLOW LINE serves as a faculty for thought provocation, which could be rational sensibility or emotional celebration in an artist’s affective domain. As a brief interlude of life, “For your own safety, please stand behind the yellow line” is a very reasonable and day-to day stuff one may hear everyday. Today, the artists shuffled a step back or two from the yellow line to view it all in their own perspective: a culmination of rules and regulations, limitations and divide, security and safety, the extremes of power and control, duality in a purpose, in their selected contexts, are some of the issues highlighted and addressed.

As such, through experiences, explorations and experimentations, each artist has developed their own interpretations in their indefinite search for the profanity of the theme STAND BEHIND THE YELLOW LINE. As if each creation were a ritual and metaphysical interaction between the medium and artist, and perhaps, a synthesis of them both, the artists wish to captivate their viewers on a personal level that reaches beyond a superficial interaction.

On a more serious note, the issues brought forward in STAND BEHIND THE YELLOW LINE hopes to explore the connotation of politics and social systems brought about by the rapid change of modernization and globalization. More than just an instruction, warning commuters of danger, this simple notion of the phrase hopes to evoke a deeper insight and understanding affecting our daily lives, in our pursuit for worldly material and wealth: issues that would not be thought, let alone try to resolve or ponder, while standing behind the yellow line.

The exhibition opens at UTTERLY ART Gallery on 5 Jan 2006, Thursday, 7:00p.m.
208 South Bridge Road #02-01 Singapore 058757. [Mon – Sat 11:30 am – 8:00 pm; Sun 12:00 – 5:30 pm]
Till 15 Jan 2006. Closed on 10 Jan 2006 (Public Holiday)