Joy of a preverbal dispenser

FOST Gallery, Gillman Barracks 11 January - 23 February 2020

Joy of a preverbal dispenser, by Singaporean abstract artist Ian Woo, is an exhibition employing painting as a ‘mental’ device. Here, forms modulate between crevices and haptic spaces. Each painting also evolves as cognitive time between examples of the pictorial and the object, revealing how each artwork is constructed. This can be attested through the artist’s methodical system of negotiating between line and shape in search for cropped perspectives, revealing the instability of memory as an ‘incidental event’. The exhibition title also alludes to the moment before description, suggesting the ambiguity and anxiety to the sensation of image making.