Beyond Typography by Jesvin Yeo - Singapore Pangram

Following her successful exhibition in Beijing this summer, artist Jesvin Yeo will be exhibiting her new work that explores the language of fellow Singaporeans. 

The artist has created 26 pangrams using the vocabulary of Singlish. Pangram is a sentence that uses all the 26 alphabets of Roman language. This exhibition illustrates how the language is part of Singaporean culture, describing the fusion of Singapore’s different races, their influences and how that culminates into the present culture. The artworks are characterized by perforated with elaborate tiny holes. Viewers have to use mini LED touch to filter light through these tiny holes to view the pangram. Intentionally, the works at once confound and elucidate, challenging the viewer’s perceptions by confronting the very nature of stereotypes, seeing and the symbiotic relationship between typography, the artist and the viewer in a process of discovery.

Nanyang Technological University
www.ntu.edu.sg

Exhibition
20 Nov –30 Nov 2009
10:00am–7:00pm daily
Free admission
The City Hall, Level 4, Courtroom 21