Entry Title: " Broken Spaces Series"
Name: Yixiu Guo , Singapore
Category: Professional, Collage


Entry Description: 150cm x 225 cm ea.

( Images are composites made up of many scanned objects )

If space was to become a place of culture, it had to contain memories. These memories are often found in the object one uses. There is an interplay of relationships that exists between these objects. Without reenacting the activities (eating, gathering, chatting), the memory of the space becomes incomplete. Peeking through her own memories of the fast diminishing hawker centre and old playgrounds in Singapore, the artist uses the scanning method of image capture to emphasize upon the mortality of imageries, adding to a feel of nostalgia towards the impermanence of such spaces within a modern society like Singapore.

The images are respectively titled

- In Time to Come (Hawker Centre / Food Centre)
and
-An Absent Childhood (Old Bumboat Playground of Singapore)

Guo is an artist who works with photography and painting. Her photographic works often adopt characteristics in painting, while she also specializes in photorealistic paintings. Her interest stems from her own identity as a Diaspora from Singapore, as she continually explores the ideas of culture through the study of social landscape and banal objects found within the everyday. Guo was awarded the Gold with Honors Award in the 2008 Singapore Youth Festival, Arts and Craft Exhibition, as well as the 27th UOB Painting of the Year, Representational Category winner title. In 2012, her curatorial group project "Singapore: "Culture is Dead"" was selected as the winning entry for the 2nd Emerging Curators Show Competition organised by Singapore's Sculpture Square Ltd. Guo is also the first prize recipient in the 2012 Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Still Photography Award.