Suzann Victor, The Image Stammers II, 2024, Glaze medium on acrylic discs, 143 x 141 x 41.5 cm. © Suzann Victor / STPI. Photo courtesy of the artist and STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore.

STPI presents Constellations, the second residency exhibition by leading Singaporean artist, Suzann Victor. The exhibition comprises over 20 new artworks from her latest collaboration with the Creative Workshop, inviting viewers to explore the nuanced possibilities of printmaking through light and shadow, and to create their own secondary light-prints on the gallery walls. Her latest poetic and tactile series offer a reappraisal of our very own embodied encounters with the phenomena of light, space, and materiality, where art is seen as much as it is discovered, sensed, and felt. The works return us to physical experience and spatial experimentation – an antidote to an age dominated by digitally-mediated experiences.

Highlights on show include The Image Stammers I and II, Afterglow, and Obsidian Moon, where Victor manipulates transparent acrylic discs to produce intentional effects of “printing” light and shadow on the wall, which become immediately remarkable to the viewer. The artist’s method of Tension-Printing on the acrylic discs in works such as Fractally Yours and Fractally Fuchsia recall natural patterns seen in lightning, roots, and the arterial networks of living organisms, and enhances our awareness of these worlds hiding in plain sight.

“Constellations revels in what is ordinarily concealed. In this spectacle of penumbrae and luminosity, one is compelled to question how something so transparent like discs and marks, can create transient prints of light shaped by shadows. It opens up a field of participation for discovery beyond surfaces, inviting viewers to not just look, but sense, the many worlds that exist around us, and within us.”

– Suzann Victor

From earlier performance works to immersive, monumental installations, Victor’s practice prospects the contours of human sensorial experience, perception, and phenomena. Mining materials from the body as well as engaging with light, water, and physics, Victor draws awareness to the viewer’s own body as an investigative tool for apprehending the world at large. Over a career spanning three decades, her works have been commissioned for important platforms including the Singapore Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale, making her the first female artist to represent Singapore; the 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art; and the 6th Gwangju Biennale. Earlier in her career, Victor co-founded pioneering feminist, artist-led collective 5th Passage, whose critical and interdisciplinary approach is acknowledged for its substantial impact on Singapore’s art landscape.

Over more than two decades, the mastery and expertise of STPI’s Creative Workshop has empowered leading contemporary artists to develop new dimensions in their creative practice through print and paper, seeking innovation through unorthodox approaches to traditional methods. Renowned artists such as Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lee Bul, and Natee Utarit, among others, have found inspiration in the unlimited possibilities allowed by artistic experimentation in their STPI residencies.

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