ARTIntrospect — Exhibition 2026

AFTER/
BODY

Interstices of Being

21 July 2026  ·  Singapore

Kerru Christine Bay Clarice Ng

Presented by ARTIntrospect

The Exhibition

What happens when the body is no longer present?

Singapore is a city built on relocation — of peoples, of memory, of place. Within a single generation, an entire landscape can be erased and rebuilt; the coordinates of a childhood home become a tower block, and the body that once inhabited that space is left holding a phantom topography.

AFTER/BODY confronts this generational compression. It asks what is retained within us when the environments that formed us are dissolved — and what new architectures of self are constructed in their absence.

"Without the body, we invite a grand reconstruction — but at what cost?"

"When the state of being leaves, what remains of the place it inhabited?"

"Will the presence of the body remain — or will it be absorbed into the landscape it tried to leave behind?"

The three artists in this exhibition approach these questions from different vantage points — ceramic form, photographic trace, and installation — yet arrive at a shared territory: the body as both site and absence, as memory-object and open question.

Clarice Ng artwork — exhibition concept image
Clarice Ng · Selected work, 2025
"Confronting the emotional displacement of intimate memories and landscapes."

AFTER/BODY operates as a public interface — not a closed gallery statement, but an open invitation to discourse. Visitors are asked not simply to witness the works, but to locate themselves within the questions they pose.

The exhibition is structured to allow accumulative encounter: each work builds on the last, each room a threshold that prepares the body to receive what comes next. To move through AFTER/BODY is to rehearse a kind of reckoning — with space, with inheritance, with the self that survives relocation.

Curatorial programming extends beyond the gallery walls through artist talks, community workshops, and a living digital archive, ensuring that the conversation initiated by the exhibition continues long after its run.

Presenting Artists

Three perspectives.
One urgent question.

Kerru installation work
Kerru · Installation view

Artist 01

Kerru

b. Singapore

Kerru works at the intersection of installation and material memory, constructing environments that ask the viewer to inhabit a space of uncertainty. Drawing from the physical legacies of Singapore's rapid urban transformation, Kerru's practice examines the traces left behind in bodies and buildings alike — the ghost-architectures of places that no longer exist except as sensation.

Her installations often employ found materials, industrial remnants, and repurposed domestic objects as vessels for collective memory. The work does not mourn lost spaces so much as stage an encounter with their continued presence — insisting that what has been demolished is never entirely gone.

Works in Exhibition

  • Residue I–III
  • The Address (site-specific installation)
  • After the Clearance
Christine Bay — audience engagement work
Christine Bay · Performance documentation

Artist 02

Christine Bay

b. Singapore

Christine Bay's practice occupies the charged space between performance, photography, and relational art. Her work is grounded in the body as a political and emotional site — examining how the self is shaped, constrained, and ultimately reformed by the institutions and landscapes it passes through.

For AFTER/BODY, Bay brings a body of photographic and participatory work that centres on collective grief and the social rituals through which communities process loss. Her practice invites audience complicity: the viewer becomes an active participant in the construction of meaning, implicating themselves in the questions the work raises.

Works in Exhibition

  • Witnesses (photographic series, 2024–25)
  • Threshold Exercise (participatory performance)
  • The Gathered
Clarice Ng ceramic work
Clarice Ng · Ceramic works, 2025

Artist 03

Clarice Ng

b. Singapore

Clarice Ng is a ceramic artist whose practice centres on the vessel as a metaphor for human experience — the contained, the fragile, the enduring. Her forms are intimate in scale but expansive in implication, exploring how the body — like clay — is shaped by pressure, heat, and time, and how what remains after those forces recede tells us something essential about who we are.

Her work for AFTER/BODY investigates the relationship between material permanence and embodied impermanence. Fired clay outlasts its maker; the body that shaped it does not. In this gap — between the lasting and the mortal — Clarice Ng locates her most urgent questions about identity, inheritance, and the marks we leave.

Works in Exhibition

  • Body, Fired (ceramic installation)
  • Inheritance Series I–VII
  • What the Hands Kept

How We Engage

The exhibition extends beyond the gallery.

Proposed Venues

Singapore's finest cultural spaces.

01

Supperhouse

02

Temasek Shophouse

03

Jendela Art Space

04

Visual Arts Center
Asia Art Collective

05

T:> Works

06

Cuturi Gallery

07

Richard Koh Fine Arts

08

Sullivan+Strumpf

Brand Partner

Marquisate London

Marquisate London is a luxury British brand rooted in heritage craftsmanship and contemporary design sensibility. Their partnership with ARTIntrospect reflects a shared belief in the power of objects — whether garment, artwork, or installation — to carry memory, mark time, and speak across generations.

Through this collaboration, Marquisate London supports the production of AFTER/BODY and engages their global community in the conversation around embodied identity and cultural continuity.

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Marquisate London — brand partner

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