Silent Voices 静默的启示
Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery is delighted to present Silent Voices, a group exhibition exploring the enduring resonance of still life through twenty works by Pierre Boncompain, Ziad Dalloul, and Denis Laget. Co-organized with Alliance Française de Singapour, this exhibition is presented as part of the vOilah! France Singapore Festival, organized by the Embassy of France in Singapore.
Still life, a genre long associated with contemplation and symbolism, has served as a mirror to cultural, philosophical, and artistic shifts over centuries. Emerging prominently in the 17th century as a celebration of material abundance and vanitas allegories meditating on mortality, it evolved in the hands of French masters like Jean Siméon Chardin, whose realism imbued humble objects with quiet dignity and intimacy. By the late 19th century, modernists, particularly Paul Cézanne, revolutionized the genre further, dissecting form and space in ways that prefigured abstraction and Cubism.
This exhibition brings together three French artists who, through distinct visual languages, engage in a contemporary dialogue with this centuries-old tradition. Their works explore the quiet power of still life—where the genre becomes a site of transformation and language of reflection, tracing the tension between permanence and impermanence, beauty and decay, presence and absence.
Exhibition Dates: 26 April – 23 May, 2025
Venue: La Galerie, Alliance Française de Singapour
Level 2, 1 Sarkies Road, Singapore 258130
Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery is delighted to present Silent Voices, a group exhibition exploring the enduring resonance of still life through twenty works by Pierre Boncompain, Ziad Dalloul, and Denis Laget. Co-organized with Alliance Française de Singapour, this exhibition is presented as part of the vOilah! France Singapore Festival, organized by the Embassy of France in Singapore.
Still life, a genre long associated with contemplation and symbolism, has served as a mirror to cultural, philosophical, and artistic shifts over centuries. Emerging prominently in the 17th century as a celebration of material abundance and vanitas allegories meditating on mortality, it evolved in the hands of French masters like Jean Siméon Chardin, whose realism imbued humble objects with quiet dignity and intimacy. By the late 19th century, modernists, particularly Paul Cézanne, revolutionized the genre further, dissecting form and space in ways that prefigured abstraction and Cubism.
This exhibition brings together three French artists who, through distinct visual languages, engage in a contemporary dialogue with this centuries-old tradition. Their works explore the quiet power of still life—where the genre becomes a site of transformation and language of reflection, tracing the tension between permanence and impermanence, beauty and decay, presence and absence.
Exhibition Dates: 26 April – 23 May, 2025
Venue: La Galerie, Alliance Française de Singapour
Level 2, 1 Sarkies Road, Singapore 258130
