Exhibition
Discrete Encoding
23 November – 29 December 2019
FOST Gallery is pleased to present Discrete Encoding,curated by Khim Ong, featuring works by Bea CAMACHO, Donna ONG, Grace TAN and Savanhdary VONGPOOTHORN.
Humans have pondered over questions of perception for as long as they are conscious of their ability to see and in attempting to make intelligible their visual experience. Thinkers have long argued ideas of perceptual experiences, the relation between appearance and reality, how we can possibility gain knowledge of the world as perceived through the senses (assuming certainty as a requisite of knowing),to the extent of throwing doubts onthe existence of a physical, external world.It is the indeterminacy of the senses that problems of perception arise and continues to fascinate.
READ MORE But how then does visual perception translate into visual impression or experience? And how can artistic works apply scientific models of acquiring and analysing visual data (in other words “knowing” the world) to produce images and objects that attempt to capture the unintelligible part of experience? The exhibition,Discrete Encoding, brings together works that engages in a process of encoding visual information, in turn translating them into sensory data embedded in a system of cultural and linguistic signification. Here, systemic producing process and subjective reflection are co-presented in the final product of artistic imaginary.