Moses Tan
Amongst the pampas stills (2024)
HD Video, Handheld sculptures
Dimensions vary
Amongst the pampas stills Polymer sculptures, Video, 2024 Amongst the pampas stills is a work in progress surveying ideas of youth, trauma and touch. Using Lee Edelman’s text No Future as a starting point, the work considers the politicisation of the image of a child in debates on futurity. Consisting of a video that appropriates childhood photos sent through social media, the work is an allegory for stillness amongst intergenerational trauma, while proposing for touch as an act of care.
Moses Tan is a Singapore-based artist whose work explores histories that intersect with queer theory and politics while looking at melancholia and shame as points of departure. Working with drawing, video and installation, his interest lies in the use of subtlety and codes in the articulation of narratives. He graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts with a BA(Hons) in Fine Arts and a BA(Hons) in Chemistry and Biological Chemistry from Nanyang Technological University.
He was awarded the Noise Singapore Award for Art and Design in 2014, Winston Oh Travel Research Grant in 2016, and the LASALLE Award for Academic Excellence in 2016. He has shown in Yavuz Gallery (SG), Grey Projects (SG), Hidden Space (HK), 1A Space (HK), Indiana University (US), Sabanci University (TR), Kunst Im Dialog (DE), and at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (SYD) and also completed a residency in Santa Fe Art Institute (US).
He currently programs and runs starch.sg, an artist-run space in Singapore.
He currently programs and runs starch.sg, an artist-run space in Singapore.