Double Exposure
A poetic reimagination of ‘Exposure_Exposure’ at Objectifs
A&M’s Creative Edit is where we publish a creative response to an ongoing exhibition or display every month. These pieces can take a range of forms, from ekphrasis, to poetry, microfiction, creative nonfiction and more.
Ian Tee, POLYCHROME / Mere-Exposure Outside Objectifs, 2025 and PG Lee, Plot, 2025, installation view at Objectifs – Centre for Photography & Film. Image courtesy of Dylan Chan and Daniel Chong. Photo taken by Daniel Chong.
PG Lee, Plot, 2025 and Sookoon Ang, S.K. Holdings, 2025, installation view at Objectifs – Centre for Photography & Film. Image courtesy of Dylan Chan and Daniel Chong. Photo taken by Daniel Chong.
Exposure_Exposure opened at Objectifs – Centre for Photography & Film on 20 January 2026 as part of Singapore Art Week. Occupying the outdoor margins of Objectifs, exposure becomes a mode of meeting: a choreography between viewer and material, matter and space, and, in some works, the broader architectures of system and structure that contour life in Singapore. In this poem, Mary Ann Lim responds to the exhibition’s double exposure through the lens of flux and friction.
Chok Si Xuan, columnar, 2025, installation view at Objectifs – Centre for Photography & Film. Image courtesy of Dylan Chan and Daniel Chong. Photo taken by Daniel Chong.
Grace Tan, Four planes form an axis, 2025, installation view at Objectifs – Centre for Photography & Film. Image courtesy of Dylan Chan and Daniel Chong. Photo taken by Daniel Chong.
The sun collapses yellow to grey. The sun snagged between two buildings. Light distends into milk and silver. Light, once whole, frays across the cobblestone. Brick calls forth a singing bowl of hollow footfall. Brick bleeds in blades of green. Along an eroded edge, metal breath consumes in remnants. Along an eroded edge, a steel carcass corrodes arrhythmically. There is nothing more or less in this exchange. There is nothing more or less than the ceaseless mastication of metal teeth against leaves, long dead. A tedious hum purifies the undergrowth. A tedious hum modulates into a screech. Impatience is an invisible saturation. Impatience propels a velocity that batters the inflatable heart. An endowment of inflatable hearts is the perseverance of hope. An endowment of inflatable hearts magnifies indifference. Waiting is life gently unclasping. Waiting is nothing more than an excavation of time. In this mausoleum, withhold your gasp. In this mausoleum, time is the sweat of dirt. They shall not find rest. They shall not find rest. There is also little to suggest that gentle threads are not equally vexed. There is also little to suggest that the air should be left intact. Every now and then they send supplication to the gods. Every now and then, the sky rips and suspends judgement. Then the careful sway of a sacred dance. Then the abrasion of pink and blue staining the horizon.
Exposure_Exposure is on view until 1 March 2026 at Objectifs – Centre for Photography & Film, Singapore.
