President's Young Talents 2018

Through 'Soil Works', Ding considers the strategies of researching the physicality of soil in Singapore by highlighting both its perceptible and less perceivable qualities. In doing so, she destabilises the concept of the scientific laboratory by staging her own multi-station ‘testing’ gallery.

Shaped by the concept of the contingency plan,'sft crsh ctrl' by Weixin Quek Chong invites visitors to engage with a range of objects and series of material encounters that seem to evade traditional inquiry.The work unfolds, unfurls, suspends and drapes in ways that challenge the visitor’s understanding and expectation of materials. Its components evoke a sense of precarity and the notion of non-occurrence.It is an installation of ‘surfaces’ as explored through material form and transformation. 'sft crsh ctrl' guides the visitor towards sensations underlined by uncertainty, persuading a disengagement from the instinct to rationalise.