an edifice w/o

an edifice w/o is an exhibition spotlighting two young artists — Dylan Chan and Rifqi Amirul Rosli, featuring all-new works in the mediums of photography, print and sculpture.

The exhibition title is taken from the preface of House of Incest by Anais Nin, which reads: All that I know is contained in this book written without witness, an edifice without dimension, a city hanging in the sky. The phrase captures something of the in-between — of things there yet formless, physical yet elusive, with edges soft and penetrable, real and imagined — that both artists contemplate in their works.

With Dylan Chan, it is the abstracting of instances from everyday life, and stitching it together to build an edifice of intimacy and love, but one that feels like it is constantly on the edge of collapsing. He evokes quiet moods and poignant emotions through the sparse arrangement of moments captured in photographs.

In his exploration of authoritative architecture, Rifqi uses wood, wire, plaster and PVC to create architectural structures, giving shape and form to such dimensionless edifices as power and control. But he has created his structures with an open lattice framework to soften and make more porous the seemingly impenetrable — hard concrete bodies turned to organic-like skeletal forms.