Lost & Found: Embodied Archive

25 October to 24 November 2024 10am to 7pm

Gallery 3 Level 3 Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Admission is free.

When we think of an archive an intuitive association that comes to mind might be a physical space teeming with material objects records and documents. By incorporating physical manifestations into artworks Lost & Found: Embodied Archive is the second pillar of Singapore Art Museum’s (SAM) multi-phase multi-year curatorial study project which allows curators and artists to experiment with new formats. Can traditional methods of documentation fully capture and preserve an artwork? How can performances or bodily experiences be "collected" or remembered? Expanding on this notion the exhibition invites visitors to consider the body as a reservoir of memory where artworks choreograph our encounters with them activating us bodily as visitors. 

From 25 October to 24 November 2024 visitors are invited to step between intersections of the body and memory to explore rituals of space mind and humanity in a month-long exhibition at SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark. Comprising nine artworks ranging from national collection pieces by Albert Yonathan Setyawan Lee Wen and Gregory Halili to loaned works by Tiyan Baker Lee Kang Seung and Tuguldur Yodonjamts and a new commission by Au Sow Yee & Chen Yow-Ruu (Her Lab Space) Lost & Found: Embodied Archive re-envisions the body as a convergence of the past and present while opening possibilities for new encounters and interpretations. 

This curatorial project engages emerging and established contemporary artists to explore the importance of archival documentation and records through artistic practices and community collaboration and to delve deeper into the notion and significance of archives. Reimagining how the experience of physical encounters being embedded in artworks and art experiences Lost & Found: Embodied Archive offers visitors the opportunity to explore new ways of understanding and engaging with contemporary art. Beyond static works the exhibition embraces the process of becoming by making space for the live nature of performative works in its midst. Many artists involved have also conceptualised performances workshops and talks that run concurrently over the month slowly unfurling as works are activated in turn creating an intentional space for movement rhythm and reflection. Participate actively in Lost & Found: Embodied Archive and its accompanying programmes and deepen your engagement in the interplay between artistic practices memory and the notion of the archive. 

Host or Publisher Singapore Art Museum