The Spectral Faith of Our Minor Flirtations 
FOST Gallery, Singapore
11 November to 22 December 2023

Floating Cnidaria (2023) shown in the exhibition The Spectral Faith of Our Minor Flirtations engages with the Japanese craft of origami, or paper folding. Floating Cnidaria is a modular paper tapestry comprised of numerous interlocking origami units – a square design with a 5-step fold that results in a windmill-like shape – not unlike the repeated patterns of colonies produced by certain species of the titular organism, which include corals and siphonophores. When joined into a single tapestry, the piece allows for physical malleability and flexibility of display, and may be adapted to specific sites in a space. Here, the work speaks to a particular feature of FOST Gallery’s interior architecture: an overhead beam. It inserts itself through a slot, mimicking how nature seeks out spatial opportunities to grow and expand even through the smallest openings. The slot reminds one of a letterbox, and Floating Cnidaria, in the manner of an enveloping entity, is suspended as, and woven into, a self-linking chain that seems to grow out of a structural groove.

For further reading of the exhibition and essay by curator Louis Ho, click here.

 

Photo credit: FOST Gallery 

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