Construction in Every Corner

Sarah Choo Jing and Matthias Choo 

Sarah Choo Jing (b. 1990, Singapore) is known for her interdisciplinary approach to photography, video and installation. Her work depicts identifiable moments and characters within contemporary urban society suggesting a plethora of private and often solitary narratives. The artist is concerned with the gaze of the flaneur, voyeurism and the uncanny.

Sarah lives and works in Singapore. She received her BFA from NTU ADM and completed her MFA at the Slade School of Art in London, in the Summer of 2015. Choo has clinched the 3D Interactive award for the The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology 2021, and 3rd Place in the Women United Art Prize 2023. Her works has been exhibited internationally at The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (2023), Turku Art Museum in Helsinki (2019), National Museum of Singapore (2017), Busan Museum of Art in Korea (2016), ArtParis at The Grand Palais in Paris (2015), the START Art Fair at The Saatchi Gallery in London (2015) and Photo London at The Somerset House in London (2015). Her works are collected by both private individuals and public institutions; including the Chrysler Museum of Art, Singapore Art Museum, National Museum of Singapore and The Arts Club Permanent Art Collection in London.

Mathias Choo is a filmmaker based in Singapore. creative focus revolves around constructing evocative cinematic experiences that transcends conventional storytelling boundaries.

He completed his BFA in Digital Filmmaking at NTU ADM. His latest short film, Rocketship, received recognition for Best Live Action at the 7th National Youth Film Awards and was selected for competition at the 31st Singapore International Film Festival. In addition, his films Rabbit Hole and STATE OF DOGma were featured in the official selection at the Alexandre Trauner Art Film Festival in 2019. 

Debbie Ding

Debbie Ding (DBBD.SG) is a visual artist and technologist whose interests range from historical research and urban geography to visions of the future. She researches and explores technologies of perception through personal investigations and experimentation. Prototyping is used as a conceptual strategy for artistic production, iteratively exploring potential dead-ends and breakthroughs–as they would be encountered by amateur archaeologists, citizen scientists, and machines programmed to perform roles of cultural craftsmanship.

DBBD received a BA in English Literature from the National University of Singapore and, as a recipient of the NAC Arts Scholarship (Postgraduate), an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art, London. She is currently doing a practice- led PhD at Nanyang Technological University on the NTU Research Scholarship. She has had solo exhibitions at The Substation Gallery, Singapore (2010) and Galerie Steph, Singapore (2013). Selected exhibitions include "Radical Gaming" (HeK), “Wikicliki” (Singapore Art Museum, 2021), “President’s Young Talents” (Singapore Art Museum, 2018); “After the Fall” (National Museum of Singapore, 2017); Singapore Biennale (2016); Radio Malaya (NUS Museum, 2016). Her work was shortlisted for the President’s Young Talents 2018 and Impart Art Awards 2020.

Marvin Tang

Marvin Tang is a Singaporean artist who uses photography, moving images, and objects to visualise phenomena that surface through the act of control. His research questions the linearity of historical narratives, examining the notion of collective identities. His works build on the cause and effects propagating from political decision- making to shifting social structures. Marvin is particularly interested in applying this research to Singapore, attempting to investigate its historical account and relationship to her expanded narratives across the globe.

Marvin graduated with BFA at NTU ADM and Masters in Photography at the University of the Arts London. He has received the Photoworks Prize at the London College of Communication in 2018. He is also the recipient of the CAPA Asia Portfolio Review Prize at the 5th Singapore International Photography Festival in 2016 and a recipient of the Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Photography in 2015. His works have been shown in Alliance Française de Singapour, DECK (Singapore), Mizuma Gallery (Singapore), Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale (Greece), Noorderlicht International Photofestival (Netherlands), Odesa Photo Days (Ukraine), and Dali International Photography Exhibition (China).