Superfuture

Over the past year, NFTs have disrupted and confounded the art world. Among its many complex effects is a heightened attention on the rich, wide-ranging landscape of digital art, which has for decades struggled to gain traction in the art market. Gathering six artists from Singapore, Indonesia, and the United States who have made significant contributions to the art world, Gajah Gallery’s inaugural exhibit on NFT art Superfuture shines light on artists who have long-employed digital methods to realise their artistic visions, or have been starting to explore digital art, diversifying oeuvres that have long been built on conventional mediums. Superfuture thus showcases both traditional work alongside new ones that were created specifically to be sold as NFTs, revealing juxtapositions and parallelisms across the trajectories of the participating artists. Displaying works ranging from photography, video art, installation to former artworks transformed into animations, Superfuture engages the world of NFTs to offer a new lens in which to view the past, probe contemporary existential questions, and imagine a future complicated with the possibilities opened up by technology.

In this exhibition, Suzann Victor returns to former work, transforming what was once an immersive, kinetic installation originally displayed at the National Museum of Singapore to a similarly mesmerising, digitally rendered video. Contours of a Rich Manoeuvre featured a row of eight red chandeliers that swing as pendulums to mark out a choreography of lit patterns in space, physicalising the indescribability of time by acting as the physical axis to portray movement over time. Its digital rendition likewise brings viewers into a meditative state, as contemplating time inevitably leads one into a deeper engagement with the present.

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