Ceci n’est pas une exposition: An Experiment by Isabelle Desjeux

This project presents the work of Dr. Isabelle Desjeux, an artist, scientist, and educator who spent 25 years in Singapore, from 1999 to 2024. The project is simultaneously a reflection on her training as a molecular biologist, her experiences making art and building community, and a proposition for things that are yet to come. Things that she will do, and things that she hopes that visitors will take in new directions. Through projects that explore image-making through simple camera technology, an “inventorium” of imagined insects, an interactive gathering of local weeds, and a careful study of the Parà rubber tree through its biology and history, visitors are invited to participate and make their own connections to the natural world. What is art? What is science? What is research? What is mutation? While the title to this exhibition states that “This is not an exhibition,” it is many other things: a series of intriguing questions, an experience, an experiment, and an invitation to participate in this whimsical way of thinking and making.