NEO_ARTEFACTS is an experimental initiative by Fazleen Karlan that looks into the intersection between art and archaeology.
Drawing from her past experience as a post-excavation technician, NEO_ARTEFACTS seeks to reassemble fragments of material from different timeframes, constructing personal and cultural realities. Growing up as a millennial, the works conflate a variety of influences including the rise of the Internet and its material culture. NEO_ARTEFACTS has presented in several group exhibitions in Singapore and was an Artist-in-Residence with NTU Centre for Contemporary Art between April - August 2022.
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This installation produces a visual record of our present time by presenting the perspective of an excavation that is yet to happen. Fazleen Karlan draws on archaeological processes to explore the indeterminate passage of time. The speculative unearthing of familiar everyday objects here, laden with soil and layered with time, reflects how our present slowly recedes into the past as we return to
dwell on it.
Conceived as a response to Singapore’s Bicentennial celebrations in 2019, #sgbyecentennial seeks to move away from the dominance of colonial legacies in our histories and beyond the Bicentennial celebration's scope of 200 years.
>>> First presented as part of The Lasalle Show Exhibition 2019
Photos: Singapore Art Museum
︎ Exhibition︎ Time Passes
dwell on it.
Conceived as a response to Singapore’s Bicentennial celebrations in 2019, #sgbyecentennial seeks to move away from the dominance of colonial legacies in our histories and beyond the Bicentennial celebration's scope of 200 years.
>>> First presented as part of The Lasalle Show Exhibition 2019
Photos: Singapore Art Museum
︎ Exhibition︎ Time Passes
Paper pulp, soil, found objects, acrylic paint, white glue
2019
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