SPECTRA – Boo Sze Yang Solo Exhibition

Gallery NaWei, Fullerton Hotel
4 December 2025

Spectra (《惑》) marks the 19th solo exhibition of Singapore artist Boo Sze Yang, presented alongside his 60th year, 30 years of practice, and Gallery NaWei’s 30th anniversary. The body of works traces Boo’s progression from figuration to abstraction, examining shifting relationships between image, memory, light, and space. Taking reference from the line in The Analects that describes sixty as the age of attunement, Spectra reflects a refined sensitivity shaped by experience, opening a quiet space between form and formlessness where perception unfolds subtly.

The exhibition brings together several series from different phases of Boo’s practice. Early works grounded in figuration—featuring religious iconography, urban architecture, and transitional city spaces—reveal his longstanding interest in the emotional weight of the built environment. Later series introduce heightened abstraction, where shimmering pools, water reflections, shifting light, and layered spatial fields dissolve into atmospheric traces. Seen together, these works chart a visual journey that moves between representation and dissolution, structure and fluidity.

Across the exhibition, Boo’s works reveal a heightened attention to flux, ambiguity, and the fluidity of perception. Visual fragments surface and dissolve within shifting layers of paint, suggesting moments of clarity and opacity—echoing how memory and experience accumulate over time. This expanded visual language reveals an openness in the artist’s practice, where seeing becomes both an act of contemplation and discovery.

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