Artist Tour with Pierfrancesco Celada [Happy Valley]

as part of the 9th Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF)

Date: 26th Oct 24 (Sat)

Time: 4pm—5pm

Meeting Point: Esplanade Box Office, Mezzanie Level

Exhibition Venue: Esplanade Tunnel, B1 (1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore 038981)

Guide: Pierfrancesco Celada

Registration: Free, by Registration

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Between 2014 and 2022, Piefrancesco's encounters in Hong Kong evolved into poignant images that capture moments of restraint, contemplation, and unspoken murmurs, waiting for viewers to uncover their deeper meanings. People and places stand for time; time that one remembers, and time that one imagines to be. Happy Valley is assembled as an allegory, weaving through time and narrating the state of mind in the pursuit of an ordinary life in Hong Kong. In the words of the artist, "Through visual metaphors, I have explored my relationship with the city, aiming to create a contemporary portrait of Hong Kong, reflecting its complex and multilayered realities.”

Happy Valley marks Pierfrancesco’s first solo showcase in Southeast Asia and is accompanied by the release of a new publication in October 2024.

Happy Valley is curated by Gwen Lee, featuring Pierfrancesco Celada [IT/HK]. This exhibition is co-presented with the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, with the generous support of the National Arts Council Singapore, AVS Printing, Italian Council, Direzione Generale Creatività, Embassy of Italy Singapore.

Pierfrancesco Celada (1979); after completing a PhD in Biomechanics, Pierfrancesco is now concentrating his attention on a series of personal long-term photographic projects documenting life in modern cities. He won the Photo Folio Review, Les Rencontres d’Arles (2021), the Guernsey Photography Festival International Competition (2020), PHmuseum Photography Grant (runner-up, 2020), Happiness Onthemove Award (2017), EPEA’03 (2015), the Photolux Leica Award (2014) and the Ideastap and Magnum Photos Photographic Award (2010). His work has been published and exhibited internationally, including Les Rencontres d’Arles, Fotografia Europea, Cortona ONTHEMOVE, Nobel Peace Center, Gulbenkian Foundation, Wyng Foundation and Deichtorhallen. Celada currently lives in Venice.

W: pierfrancescocelada.com

Host or Publisher Singapore International Photography Festival