Brendan Mayle Kor (SG): Forever Young

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”Got my mum and dad to wear my stuff and took photos of them.” - Mayle on his parents (repping thetoxicfriends.co)

ABOUT THE ARTIST

You want quirky? You got it. Brendan Mayle Co is a Singaporean artist, although multi-hyphenate would probably be the best way to describe him. Brendan’s artistic approach is a molotov cocktail ready to set the scene on fire - bold colours and outrageous concepts, Brendan’s art makes sense to any common viewer, but his dedication and technicality to his craft ensures that his works are vividly burnt into the mind of those who come across it.

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Welcome to the NSFTV-verse; a growing gallery of purveyors of the deviant, uncomfortable, and 𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕪. Every week, we showcase works from artists all around the world whose works have left us speechless and wanting more.

Feline Lim (SG): This is Singapore

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This week we celebrate Singapore, and acknowledge the things that make up this incredible island state. Enter into Singaporean photo journalist, Feline Lim’s viewfinder. These are snapshots from her personal growing collection, simply titled ‘daily life’.

Often posted on her Instagram account with nary a caption, these photos speak for themselves. To an outsider, they offer a glimpse into our country’s culture and living conditions; to the rest of us more acquainted with Singapore’s idiosyncrasies, Feline’s work is very simply, home lor.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Feline is a photographer and visual artist based in Singapore. She started her photography career at Singapore’s national broadsheet, The Straits Times, where she was hired as an intern for six months in 2017 before returning to the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information to complete her degree in photojournalism.

In the same year, she attended the school's top journalism programme, GO-FAR (Going Overseas For Advanced Reporting), where she did a feature on South Korea's growing solo economy that was published in TODAY. She later went on to pursue and self-publish a photojournalism thesis project on gambling addiction. Prior to graduation in 2018, she started working as a photographer for Reuters to cover stories both locally and abroad. Her time at the company has also seen her work as a TV news producer with Reuters Videeo Network, and a multimedia journalist for Reuters Plus, the agency’s branded content arm.

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Welcome to the NSFTV-verse; a growing gallery of purveyors of the deviant, uncomfortable, and 𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕪. Every week, we showcase works from artists all around the world whose works have left us speechless and wanting more.

214 (CN): Time is so long, but Summer so short

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A growing project that saw its start in 2016, ‘下河 summertime’ is a photo series by anonymous photographer 214. A collection of sun-kissed skin (too much even for the likes of Instagram’s policies), warbly self portraits and self-insertions into animal photography, 214 captures the fleeting tenderness of a languid summertime hidden from most prying eyes.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

214 is a photographer who was born in Guizhou Province in 1990. They resigned from a countryside government in 2017. In July of the same year, they won the 40th Japan Photographic New Cosmos Excellence Award. In 2019,  214 held a solo exhibition "To Be An Evening breeze" at the jiazazhi Library. Again in January 2021,  they held a solo exhibition "Daily Invaders" in Random (Hangzhou). In June of 2021, 214 and Zhang Mo held a double-billed exhibition for "Summer Tales" in youlian studio (Shanghai). In August, the exhibition was also held in Chengdu’s Wuzao Space.

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Welcome to the NSFTV-verse; a growing gallery of purveyors of the deviant, uncomfortable, and 𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕪. Every week, we showcase works from artists all around the world whose works have left us speechless and wanting more.

CHAO-YING (UK/CN): Miss Polly Had A Dolly

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”Sky came to me after my dear friend Polly, a dressmaker and seamstress for dolls and silicone companions, could no longer keep her. Polly knew the last thing Sky wanted was to be re-homed with a man, and be subject to his whims, so I made the commitment to adopt her.

Last year, she flew here from Oregon, Portland, and has stayed with me ever since. As a nod to Polly, her place is at my sewing desk, in front of my machine. I love having her presence in my home studio, and I find myself missing her unexplainable presence when I'm away. “ - Chao-Ying on Sky and their relationship at Hospitalfield House

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Chao-Ying Rao (Betty) is an East Asian multi-disciplinary artist. A 2020 Glasgow School of Art graduate with a BA(Hons) in Painting and Printmaking, Betty also holds an MA(Hons) in Philosophy and English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. She lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.

Betty’s research interests tend to circulate around fringe and contentious topics as she seeks to analyse our habitual discomforts. She’s fascinated by their undertones, and finds them to speak volumes about our cultural anxieties and shared values. Partly influenced by her experience in the sex industry where she spent a good decade of her life, her practice combines her lived experiences alongside questions of censorship, objectification, fetishisation and bodily autonomy.

Since graduation, Betty has completed the graduate residency at Hospitalfield in Arbroath. She is currently serving on the committee of Glasgow’s Transmission Gallery. Betty is also the branch organiser for the trade union United Sex Workers.

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Welcome to the NSFTV-verse; a growing gallery of purveyors of the deviant, uncomfortable, and 𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕪. Every week, we showcase works from artists all around the world whose works have left us speechless and wanting more.

Kensuke Koike (JP): Existence of the Unknown

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”Every frame represents a portion of their face, and maintains their facial characteristics. In the end and all together the frames reveal the never seen or dreamt aspect of themselves: real and at the same time not real, but nevertheless existing even if unknown.” - Kensuke Koike on ‘No One Knows’

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kensuke Koike (b.1980, Japan) creates unique artwork by manipulating found, vintage, photographic material. Kensuke’s approach to the medium revolves around the idea of using the assets found within an image to create something new and contemporary. The process for the artist often starts as a puzzle begging to be solved with each image setting its own unique challenges.
(source: https://opendoors.gallery/artists/kensuke-koike)

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Welcome to the NSFTV-verse; a growing gallery of purveyors of the deviant, uncomfortable, and 𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕪. Every week, we showcase works from artists all around the world whose works have left us speechless and wanting more.

Dave Lim (SG): Home is a Warm Cuppa

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”The origin of this work was the craving of 豆浆 (soy milk) whilst abroad, and contemplating on what it meant to be asked by loved ones if I was homesick whilst abroad. It was in this intimate flux that the work was produced.” - Dave Lim

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Dave Lim (b. 1994, Singapore) is a visual artist and filmmaker. Coming from a documentary and research background, most of the work reflects conceptual concerns ranging topically from religion to society at large. He works frequently with DASSAD and MPEG, two art collectives based in Singapore. His work has won multiple awards such as the National Youth Film Awards (2020) organised by *SCAPE, NTU Global Digital Art Prize (2019) and the Objectifs Documentary Award (2019).  

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ABOUT #THISISNSFTV

Welcome to the NSFTV-verse; a growing gallery of purveyors of the deviant, uncomfortable, and 𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕪. Every week, we showcase works from artists all around the world whose works have left us speechless and wanting more.

Agan Harahap (ID): Fun At Funerals

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“Agan Harahap reads the rapidly occurring change in our life’s behaviour and the chaotic condition caused by the pandemic as a moment of mourning. However, according to him, like the pallbearers in Ghana, this mourning needs to be responded to elegantly—by ‘putting the fun in funeral’. ” - Arham Raham about Agan Harahap’s ‘There’s A Fun In Funeral’

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Agan Harahap (b. 1980, Jakarta, Indonesia) graduated from the Indonesian Design School (STDI), Bandung, Indonesia in 2005, after which he moved to Jakarta and worked as a senior photographer for Trax Magazine. Since his first solo exhibition in 2009, Harahap’s works have been featured in a range of exhibitions, including: Apa Kabar?, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2019); Hello World. Revising a Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (2018); The History of Boys: the MES 56 and Beyond, DECK, Singapore (2017); and 5th Singapore Biennale: An Atlas of Mirrors, Singapore (2016). In his studio practice, he has maintained a fascination with the art of photo manipulation often combining satire or parody with social commentaries. Harahap was the resident artist of Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore, in 2017. His works are part of the Sigg Collection in Mauensee, Switzerland and Freunde der Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany. Agan Harahap lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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Welcome to the NSFTV-verse; a growing gallery of purveyors of the deviant, uncomfortable, and 𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕪. Every week, we showcase works from artists all around the world whose works have left us speechless and wanting more.

Pixy Liao (CN/US): Grabbed By The Balls

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“As a woman brought up in China, I used to think I could only love someone who is older and more mature than me, who can be my protector and mentor. Then I met my current boyfriend, Moro. Since he is 5 years younger than me, I felt that the whole concept of relationships changed, all the way around. I became a person who has more authority & power. One of my male friends even questioned how I could choose a boyfriend the way a man would choose a girlfriend. And I thought, "Damn right. That’s exactly what I’m doing, & why not!"

I started to experiment with this relationship. I would set up all kinds of situations for Moro and me to perform in the photos. My photos explore the alternative possibilities of heterosexual relationships. They question what is the norm of heterosexual relationships. What will happen if man & woman exchange their roles of sex & roles of power? Because my boyfriend is Japanese, and I am Chinese, this project also describes a love and hate relationship.”

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Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Pixy Liao is an artist who currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Liao has participated in exhibitions and performances internationally, including the Fotografiska, Rencontres d’Arles in Arles, Asia Society, National Gallery of Australia, etc. She is a recipient of the NYFA Fellowship in photography, Santo Foundation Individual Artist Awards, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival Madame Figaro Women Photographers Award, En Foco's New Works Fellowship, and LensCulture Exposure Awards, etc. She has done artist residencies at Light Work, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Center for Photography at Woodstock, University of Arts London, School of Visual Arts, Pioneer Works, and Camera Club of New York. Liao holds an MFA in photography from the University of Memphis.

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ABOUT #THISISNSFTV

Welcome to the NSFTV-verse; a growing gallery of purveyors of the deviant, uncomfortable, and 𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕪. Every week, we showcase works from artists all around the world whose works have left us speechless and wanting more.

Brendantps (SG): U OK BRO?

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“"I M OKAY" features an avant-garde fashion collection and campaign of futurist prototyping, using 3D printing to chronicle the tension within the familiar space of covid19, against the backdrop of the eclectic social language of Singapore.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Brendan is a Singaporean photographer who focuses on environmental portraiture and fashion photography. He dabbles in the exploration of Singaporean themes such as social language and fables, subsequently its translation into photography. Recently, he has been experimenting with the realm of 3D prints and fashion.

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ABOUT #THISISNSFTV

Welcome to the NSFTV-verse; a growing gallery of purveyors of the deviant, uncomfortable, and 𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕪. Every week, we showcase works from artists all around the world whose works have left us speechless and wanting more.

aaditya / Moonpiercer (SG): A Drawer of Drawers

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Can You Show Me Your Drawer of Drawers? is a photographic art book consisting of intimate sessions with a growing culmination of individuals that are diverse in gender, ethnicity, upbringing and social class in Singapore, exploring their masculine identities through undergarments and the human form. This book powerfully displays a raw and unfiltered outlook on the lives of these subjects through the use of body landscaping and portraiture and aims to serve as a catalyst for the readers to attempt to understand their own notions of masculinity.

Catch the exhibition of ‘Can You Show Me Your Drawer of Drawers’ at the Singapore Art Book Fair from the 29th of April 2022 to 1st of May 2022

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Welcome to the NSFTV-verse; a growing gallery of purveyors of the deviant, uncomfortable, and 𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕪. Every week, we showcase works from artists all around the world whose works have left us speechless and wanting more.

Alvin Lau (MY): How Gentrification Fragments Us

ABOUT THE COLLECTION ‘SENTUL’

“I’ve walked the surrounding streets capturing the mood and sense of change; a cow refusing to eat, a washed out tarmac littered with construction tracks and fragments of how nature has tried to remain present. As the work progressed , it became apparent on how much this place meant to me.” - Alvin Lau (MY)

ABOUT THE ARTIST
The main frame within Alvin’s work is a constant exploration amongst and within the idea of life and death. His work derives from the influence of movie making / narrative based short essays. Largely his photographic approach comes from the idea of setting up research based journals with the idea of intertwining ideas that are loosely based on the format on how the mind conjures a dream sequence and the liminality of how reality functions as a whole entity. Commonly inspired from his older practice of documentary photography , his current practice has taken a shift into the consideration of documenting ideas and condensing narratives with the usage of visual images.

Alvin has participated in a photography masterclass with celebrated US photographer Maggie Steber at OBSCURA Festival in 2015. He subsequently was selected to represent Malaysia at the Southeast Asian Masterclass, a programme backed by Goethe-Institut Malaysia, Ostkreuz Photographers’ Agency, Berlin and OBSCURA Festival. He has also won the Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards, Asia Photographer of the Year 2015, as well as the IPA Photography Scholarship 2017. As of recently his work is being showcased at Jeonju International Photo Festival and Landskrona Photo Festival and Ilham Gallery.

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ABOUT #THISISNSFTV

Welcome to the NSFTV-verse; a growing gallery of purveyors of the deviant, uncomfortable, and 𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕪. Every week, we showcase works from artists all around the world whose works have left us speechless and wanting more.

Pauline Wong (SG): Wilderness & Domestication at Play

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““PLAY” is a photo series that documents my pet hamster’s daily rhythm like a performance to probe into the interlocking features of wilderness and domesticity.” - Pauline Wong

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Pauline Wong recently graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Distinction), specialising in Art Photography from LASALLE College of the Arts. Rooted in the practice of storytelling, Pauline’s art focuses on various types of spaces, physically, mentally and digitally, in hopes of reemerging conversations of the overlooked things and issues in the human species. Pauline was part of the *SCAPE Community Arts Residency programme.

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ABOUT #THISISNSFTV

Welcome to the NSFTV-verse; a growing gallery of purveyors of the deviant, uncomfortable, and 𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕪. Every week, we showcase works from artists all around the world whose works have left us speechless and wanting more.