2014
Paradise Lost is the inaugural exhibition of the newly established Centre for Contemporary Art in Singapore, January 2014. Conceived as a constellation of three artistic productions that together explore narratives of travel and migration, place and displacement, the personal intertwined with colonial history. The exhibition juxtaposes trans-generational perspectives, bringing together three major installations of moving image: Surname Viet Given Name Nam by Trinh T. Minh-ha, Yellow Patch by Zarina Bhimji and Disorient by Fiona Tan. While all three artists are of Asian descent, their education and artistic practice unfolded in Europe and the US, and gained international exposure from there. This is the first time these works are shown in Asia in an exhibition context.
Paradise Lost introduces an imaginary Asia — Asia as a space of projections and desires stemming from an experience of dislocation and asynchronicity. We took inspiration from this for the exhibition branding, creating a distinctive identity which express notions of nostalgia and poetry across all print, marketing and environmental design.
