Projects

Aug-Dec 2023

Dimensions: Varies

Materials: Tulle fabric, metal wires

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About this Exhibition:

Stories of Care (III), 2023 is a collaboration involving second-year Degree students from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and clinical pastoral care counsellors and medical social workers (collaborators) from Assisi Hospice. This collaboration presents an opportunity to facilitate deep cross-disciplinary exchanges within the healthcare and art education sectors. Inspired by their collaborators' stories and lived experiences, NAFA students present artworks that aim to foster an appreciation for health and care practices and deepen conversations on art, healthcare and well-being in our society.

 

Artwork:

Saudade is a portrayal of solitude that activates senses through movement - transforming the social workers' space into a peaceful mental escape and tapping into the emotional mundanity of being a social worker in Assisi Hospice. Using the translucency of the tulle fabric and the tenacity of metal wires, we combined them to form flower petals that give the space its enhanced tranquillity. In addition, with the assistance of our collaborator, Ms Calista, a palliative care social worker - she gave us her poem titled “This is the year”. She allowed us to embroider the words from her poem onto the petals. In the poem, she taps into the emotions of the stakeholders and herself in the hospice.

 

Artists:

AMIRAH ZAHIRAH BINTE ABU BAKAR

ERIN NASHIRA BINTE RUDY HESTY

HENG YING XUAN

SHANA SELVAN

VINOD ARNAV

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