CORE contemporary art

The above statement does ring a truth to it as artists have been known for generation to be predictors of the future. With strong observational skills, artists have been able to draw relations between histories of the past and connect it to current events. Their personal insights and commentaries are often transformed into a visual communication that lays the foundation for imagining the future.

Most likely the COVID-19 pandemic will not be resolved soon prompting the need for people to adjust their living conditions and lifestyle to the new normal. The idea of changing human social behaviour from the old ways to adapt to the new normal makes it an interesting concept for artists to visually contextualise their insights on these new changes.

1 Meter Apart is a group art exhibition that invites artists of different genres and styles to produce two artworks each. One of the artworks will be based on the artist’s observation of the old normal and the other artwork based on the artist’s imagination of the new normal. 1 Meter Apart serves as a social observation before the rise pandemic and also a reflection of the possible change to the future.

extracted writing by Scarlette Lee